HMS Queen Elizabeth returns home as historic global deployment comes to an end

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HMS Queen Elizabeth returns home as historic global deployment comes to an end
Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth returns to Portsmouth today after her global seven month maiden operational deployment leading Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21). Sailors, aviators, ships and aircraft have returned to their home bases in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States of America.
From:Ministry of DefencePublished9 December 2021

The flight deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth
HMS Queen Elizabeth’s crew are being welcomed back to their home base of Portsmouth after sailing 49,000 nautical miles to the Indo-Pacific and back. HMS Kent will join her tomorrow.
3,700 personnel from nine ships, a submarine, five air squadrons and a company of Royal Marines will arrive home in time for Christmas having departed the UK in early May.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said:

Today we pay tribute to the 3,700 personnel in the Carrier Strike Group that have been our global ambassadors on this historic and ground-breaking deployment.

The personnel and their families have made considerable sacrifices to make this deployment the success it has been. We thank them for all their efforts in strengthening our relationships with our allies and partners around the world.

Families and friends gathered in Portsmouth to meet their loved ones. Those deployed will transit straight home where they will take a PCR test and quarantine until they receive the result. 25 of those deployed on CSG21 met their babies who were born in the last seven months for the first time today.
Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said:

Throughout the past seven months HMS Queen Elizabeth and her Strike Group have been furthering the UK’s interests and strengthening our partnerships around the globe. With involvement from across the Armed Forces, and our allies integrated throughout, this deployment has been a truly joint, truly international endeavour, which represents the very best of Global Britain.

I thank everyone involved for their efforts to make this deployment such a resounding success, and I wish our returning sailors, aviators, soldiers and marines a very happy reunion with their families this Christmas.

Earlier this week, the Carrier Air Wing departed the group after clocking up 4,723 flying hours. The Air Wing consisted of UK F-35 jets from 617 (The Dambusters) Sqn based at RAF Marham, Wildcat helicopters from RNAS Yeovilton and Merlin helicopters from RNAS Culdrose.
US Marine Corps F-35 jets from VMFA-211 departed CSG21 in late November. United States’ Destroyer USS The Sullivans returned to her base port of Jacksonville, Florida in time for Thanksgiving last month and Dutch Frigate Evertsen recently returned to her home base of Den Helder.
Many families and friends greeted frigate HMS Richmond who arrived in Plymouth today, meanwhile HMS Defender and HMS Diamond returned to Portsmouth.
The Carrier Strike Group sailed across three oceans and five seas, cumulatively covering around 500,000 nautical miles. The group has engaged with 44 countries, strengthening partnerships with allies including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France, Greece, Israel, India, Italy, Japan, Oman and the Republic of Korea.
The most significant peacetime deployment in a quarter of a century, Carrier Strike Group 21 has been more than just a military endeavour, bringing together elements of defence, diplomacy and prosperity and flying the flag for Global Britain.

HMS Queen Elizabeth returns home as historic global deployment comes to an end

Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth returns to Portsmouth today after her global seven month maiden operational deployment leading Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21). Sailors, aviators, ships and aircraft have returned to their home bases in the Netherlands, United Kingdom...

www.gov.uk

 

[Saudang]

Thats what a true Carrier Battle group should be capable of. But some superpower in Asia is using its carriers to tail behind fishing boats in shallow water

 

[hualushui]

 

[beijingwalker]

Some the master called it back?

 

[beijingwalker]

HMS Queen Elizabeth returns home as historic global deployment comes to an end

Lol, this article's title is more appropriate...
Royal Navy flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth returns to UK from first tour without £100m fighter jet

Royal Navy flagship returns to UK from first tour missing £100m fighter

Investigation continues into crash of F-35B fighter which plunged into sea just after it took off from Queen Elizabeth

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Beast]

Thats what a true Carrier Battle group should be capable of. But some superpower in Asia is using its carriers to tail behind fishing boats in shallow water

What capable it show beside trying to demonstrate as a cruise ship? It even need US destroyer and F-35 to make up the number to barely muster a fleet. Why did it so hassle to do such thing? Maybe try to mask its impotency?

The fact fact, it lost one F-35 , more or less prove. This demonstration is nothing but failure for RN. Imagine, its war time deployment, due to the high sortie and usage. All F-35 will drop into water or mishap! No airwing and this carrier is as good as nothing.

HMS Queen Elizabeth returns home as historic global deployment comes to an end
Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth returns to Portsmouth today after her global seven month maiden operational deployment leading Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21). Sailors, aviators, ships and aircraft have returned to their home bases in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States of America.
From:Ministry of DefencePublished9 December 2021

The flight deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth
HMS Queen Elizabeth’s crew are being welcomed back to their home base of Portsmouth after sailing 49,000 nautical miles to the Indo-Pacific and back. HMS Kent will join her tomorrow.
3,700 personnel from nine ships, a submarine, five air squadrons and a company of Royal Marines will arrive home in time for Christmas having departed the UK in early May.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said:


Families and friends gathered in Portsmouth to meet their loved ones. Those deployed will transit straight home where they will take a PCR test and quarantine until they receive the result. 25 of those deployed on CSG21 met their babies who were born in the last seven months for the first time today.
Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said:


Earlier this week, the Carrier Air Wing departed the group after clocking up 4,723 flying hours. The Air Wing consisted of UK F-35 jets from 617 (The Dambusters) Sqn based at RAF Marham, Wildcat helicopters from RNAS Yeovilton and Merlin helicopters from RNAS Culdrose.
US Marine Corps F-35 jets from VMFA-211 departed CSG21 in late November. United States’ Destroyer USS The Sullivans returned to her base port of Jacksonville, Florida in time for Thanksgiving last month and Dutch Frigate Evertsen recently returned to her home base of Den Helder.
Many families and friends greeted frigate HMS Richmond who arrived in Plymouth today, meanwhile HMS Defender and HMS Diamond returned to Portsmouth.
The Carrier Strike Group sailed across three oceans and five seas, cumulatively covering around 500,000 nautical miles. The group has engaged with 44 countries, strengthening partnerships with allies including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France, Greece, Israel, India, Italy, Japan, Oman and the Republic of Korea.
The most significant peacetime deployment in a quarter of a century, Carrier Strike Group 21 has been more than just a military endeavour, bringing together elements of defence, diplomacy and prosperity and flying the flag for Global Britain.

HMS Queen Elizabeth returns home as historic global deployment comes to an end

Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth returns to Portsmouth today after her global seven month maiden operational deployment leading Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21). Sailors, aviators, ships and aircraft have returned to their home bases in the Netherlands, United Kingdom...

www.gov.uk

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Shameless self bragging article with no meaning.

 

[beijingwalker]

Shameless self bragging

Bragging attached with a price tag this time, £100 million.

 

[aziqbal]

Lol, this article's title is more appropriate...
Royal Navy flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth returns to UK from first tour without £100m fighter jet

Royal Navy flagship returns to UK from first tour missing £100m fighter

Investigation continues into crash of F-35B fighter which plunged into sea just after it took off from Queen Elizabeth

www.independent.co.uk

yes and pilot is alive and they learn and move on from global deployment

on The other hand Chinese casino carriers are still to scared to leave South China Sea

 

[beijingwalker]

yes and pilot is alive and they learn and move on from global deployment

on The other hand Chinese casino carriers are still to scared to leave South China Sea

Chinese warships were also spotted near US coast. You learned? lol.. not yet, you're going to have a lot more to learn in the future, with even more hefy price tags, lol...

 

[aziqbal]

Chinese warships were also spotted near US coast. You learned? lol.. not yet, you're going to have a lot more to learn in the future, with even more hefy price tags, lol...

yes built to sub standard using automation

UK uses master welders for welding warships

 

[beijingwalker]

yes built to sub standard using automation

UK uses master welders for welding warships

LOL, so fancy, keep crashing your pricy US jets, you're gonna pay for it, not us.

 

[Saudang]

What capable it show beside trying to demonstrate as a cruise ship? It even need US destroyer and F-35 to make up the number to barely muster a fleet. Why did it so hassle to do such thing? Maybe try to mask its impotency?

The fact fact, it lost one F-35 , more or less prove. This demonstration is nothing but failure for RN. Imagine, its war time deployment, due to the high sortie and usage. All F-35 will drop into water or mishap! No airwing and this carrier is as good as nothing.

Carriers are supposed to be blue water offensive platforms, not some coastal defense ships, and that's what it demonstrated its its 40000nm global tour. Its f-35 clocked close to 5000 Hrs of flight during this time. For the same flight time by J-15, half of the fleet of 32 aircrafts in Type 002 need to go for engine overhaul.. That is the deference ..

 

[beijingwalker]

I wonder next time when they finish a tour, how many weapons will be missing after they get home.

 

[Battlion25]

I wonder next time when they finish a tour, how many weapons will be missing after they get home.

sending ships that do nothing but only cost money

 

[Beast]

Carriers are supposed to be blue water offensive platforms, not some coastal defense ships, and that's what it demonstrated its its 40000nm global tour. Its f-35 clocked close to 5000 Hrs of flight during this time. For the same flight time by J-15, half of the fleet of 32 aircrafts in Type 002 need to go for engine overhaul.. That is the deference ..

LOL.. So much of your fake lies. You expect PLAN to do a world tour of our aircraft carrier and then the vicious western will have the chance of malign China as warmonger? Type 002 never go for any engine overhaul yet since commissioned. So much desperate of your lies. Do you know why India CDS is killed? Becos he speak too much lies and got retribution from heaven.

You better watched out for committing so much of this act!