With four months of activity alongside allies and partners successfully completed, the UK Carrier Strike Group (CSG), led by HMS Queen Elizabeth, is preparing for a series of engagements with Singapore, India and Oman this autumn.
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With nine ships, including the flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, thirty-two aircraft, and more than 3,700 personnel, it is the largest Royal Navy flotilla to depart the UK in decades. Last month, the Carrier Strike Group began its first operational deployment, and it will take part in a seven-month global deployment through the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans and
Carrier Strike Group Sets Sail on 7-month Maiden Deployment
Britain s new flagship aircraft carrier will lead the largest concentration of maritime and air power to be deployed from the UK in a generation.
Nine ships, 32 aircraft, and 3,700 personnel will set sail today on the UK Carrier Strike Group’s maiden operational deployment.
The seven-month global deployment will extend through the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean and on to the Indo-Pacific, interacting with more than one fifth of the world’s nations.
Britain’s new flagship aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, will lead six Royal Navy ships, a Royal Navy submarine, a US Navy destroyer and a frigate from the Netherlands in the largest concentration of maritime and air power to leave the UK in a generation.