UK shipbuilder Babcock has secured a GBP30 million (USD36.7 million) contract to conduct the routine dry-dock maintenance periods of the UK Royal Navy's (RN's) two Queen Elizabeth-class (QEC) carriers for the next decade at its dockyard in R.
activation would be a nato decision to make and that would be up to the secretary general, of course, in consultation with the commander of allied forces in europe, general walters, president biden has agreed to make these troops available to the task force, if, in fact, it s activated but not all of the troops we were talking about yesterday are, in fact, designated just for the readiness force for nato. some of these are also being told to be on a heightened alert just for our own united states purposes to see if there s a need for us to continue to reassure on a bilateral basis with some of our nato allies over in europe. how quickly could these troops be heading overseas? i know it takes them from a state of readiness from ten days to five days and kind of progresses from there, but how quickly do you envision they could be heading over? we don t know the answer to that, kate. all we ve done here, kate, is put them on heightened alert posture on a shorter bit of a tether there
The UK Royal Navy's (RN's) second Queen Elizabeth-class carrier (QEC), HMS , has departed for the Arctic to start its first operational deployment as command ship for NATO's High Readiness Force (Maritime). Prince of Wales UK Royal Navy carr.
nato has actually, triggered by the illegal annexation of crimea, implemented the biggest reinforcement of our collective defence in a generation. for the first time in our history, we have battle groups in the eastern part of the alliance, we have tripled the size of the nato readiness force, and allies are investing more in defence for the first time since the end of the cold war. this is important changes of how nato is responding to the aggressive actions by russia against ukraine, georgia and other countries. at the same time. right, but look at the record of the last seven years, mr secretary general. vladimir putin s forces, of course, are still in crimea, the annexation hasn t been reversed. vladimir putin, in effect, still controls eastern ukraine. vladimir putin is backing the lukashenko regime in belarus, despite all of the pressures that the west has tried to bring to bear on that particular situation. vladimir putin is