HMS Queen Elizabeth
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The first Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the @RoyalNavy, based in HMNB Portsmouth ⚓️🇬🇧
Joined July 2015
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Personnel from all three Services, and our #UKF35 jets, formed up on deck this week, to pay our respects to our war dead. This weekend and always, we will never forget those who served before us . @PoppyLegion @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce @BritishArmy @17SqnRAF #WeWillRememberThem
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Last year, this year, every year. We will never forget. #RemembranceSunday #LestWeForget #WeWillRememberThem
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Phase 2 of our #CSG21 deployment has begun! 🎉. A hazy day as we pass through the Suez Canal 🇪🇬, next the Red Sea and then onto the Indian Ocean. #GlobalBritain @UKinEgypt 🇬🇧🌍
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Are you feeling the need - the need for speed?! Here is the first 🇬🇧⚡️takeoff in real time, as requested by so many of you. Enjoy! #WESTLANT19 #QNLZatSea #bigdecksfastjets #FlyNavy @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce @OC617Sqn @17SqnRAF
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Due to popular demand, video of the first 🇬🇧⚡️takeoff! Disclaimer: this video has been slowed down; F-35 moves significantly faster in real time!! Flown by Lt Cdr Matt Fooks-Bale RN #WESTLANT19 #flynavy #bigdecksfastjets @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce @RAF_Marham @17SqnRAF
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We were honoured with a very special send off:. Her Majesty The Queen was briefed on our plan by Commodore Moorhouse - and met the sailors, marines and aviators who will make it happen on her behalf. @smrmoorhouse .#CarrierStrike
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Today we give thanks to our Lady Sponsor, Her Majesty The Queen, for 68 years of dedicated service to our Nation. @RoyalFamily
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🇬🇧⚡️GIVEAWAY ALERT⚡️🇺🇸. To celebrate reaching 50k followers we are going to giveaway one F35-B model; courtesy of @LockheedMartin . Just give this post a ❤️ & a Re-Tweet commenting #Westlant18 and #F35ondeck for entry. Winner will be drawn on 24 Sep 18. T&C’s threaded.
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What a beautiful morning for our entry. It’s hard to believe just weeks ago we were flying #UKF35 from these decks for the very first time. Home is in clear view 👀 #WESTLANT19
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The @RoyalNavy's greenest Warship @hms_tamar capturing us emerging from the morning mist. Cracking 📷
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#OTD in 1982 the guns fell silent on the liberated Falkland Islands. 37 days later HMS HERMES returned to the city & berth we today, call home. Our church service onboard today remembered the lives lost during the campaign. #LestWeForget
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🌊🇬🇧🌊🇬🇧🌊🇬🇧🌊🇬🇧🌊🇬🇧🌊🇬🇧🌊🇬🇧🌊🇬🇧🌊. Once again, UK waters are roaring deep with the sound of carrier launched British fighter jets. #BigDeckFastJets. @AdmTonyRadakin @ChiefofAirStaff @MartinJConnell
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We were privileged to welcome our Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP on board - and to show him some British lightning 🇬🇧⚡
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Goodbye! 🇯🇵 さようなら. A good visit and good views on the sail out! 🏙️. We have set sail but are still working with Japan and the US in training Exercise Pacific Crown. @jmsdf_pao_eng @JASDF_PAO #CSG21 #Yokosuka
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Now this is the way to travel to work! What a fantastic viewpoint of the ship - what you can’t see is the queue of excited matelots wanting to have a go! From one type of jet #UKF35 to another @takeonGravity #WESTLANT19
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More than satisfied with our present this year. Merry Christmas everybody!. #UKF35🇬🇧 #BeastMode #MerryChristmas
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A big day of Defence Engagement!.🤝🌏. We were glad to welcome Defence Minister @KishiNobuo and senior officers from the Japan Self-Defense Forces to our ship along with HM Ambassador @JuliaLongbottom 🇬🇧 🇯🇵. @ModJapan_jp @ModJapan_en #CSG21
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A double RAS. with flying at the same time! 💪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱. @RFATidespring @HNLMS_Evertsen ⛽. Merlin helicopters 🚁. F-35B Lightning II jets ✈. a nice sunset too! 🌅.@820NAS @RoyalNavy @USMC @RoyalAirForce @thef35 #CSG21
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Hello Sweden! 🇸🇪. HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH has arrived in Gothenburg today ahead of various Defence Engagement events, and some well-earned rest for the Ship’s Company. If you spot us, send us your pictures. #KingsFlagship #Sweden #Gothenburg #UKCSG23
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Someone needed to leave the ship in a hurry! We do have seaboats you know @takeonGravity #WESTLANT19
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We have flown our first #UKF35 multi-ship, launching 4 jets in quick succession and recovering on completion of their ‘mission’. Absolutely awe inspiring to watch, hear and feel! #WESTLANT19 @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce @17SqnRAF @OC617Sqn
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Anyone still ❓ our legitimacy as an aircraft carrier?🤔 Peek into our hangar - this cavernous space suddenly feels a bit cramped! Still plenty of room for more but this gives you an idea of scale when 4 ⚡️& 5 🚁 were put to bed last night #WESTLANT19 @royalnavy @RoyalAirForce
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We have just dispatched the last #F35 for 2018. 202 takeoffs. 187 vertical landings, 15 SRVL’s including the Worlds first. 75 hours in the air & 54 Training Weapons dropped . A monumental year for 🇬🇧 Carrier Strike supported by our closest ally. Bring on 2019! #F35onDeck
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🌂's team?. Sometimes our flight deck crews get a suntan ☀️, other times, well, slightly wet 🌊. With our final #UKF35🇬🇧 landing today, they now have 1️⃣5️⃣ fast jets and 8️⃣ helicopters to manage and manoeuvre. #FlightDeckLife #Groupex #JW202
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News travels as fast as lightning. Another #StrikeCarrier day for us, just that we now have the largest #5thGen Air Group, at sea, in the world. With the pilots now inducted it will be busy times ahead as we head into #Groupex and #JW202. ⚡️🇬🇧Lightning has Struck🇺🇸⚡️
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Today, we stand shoulder to shoulder with our US colleagues as they remember their fallen. #MemorialDay.#WeWillRememberThem.#HonorThem
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Semper Eadem ⚡🇬🇧⚓. Another day rolling in the deep conducting flight deck operations with @OC617Sqn under the direction of @smrmoorhouse Carrier Strike Staff. All with the watchful eye of @FOST. #TrainedDeckOperationalJets
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UK Lightning in 'Beast' mode onboard the future Fleet Flagship - a defining moment on the road to operational Carrier Strike capability. Up to 22,000 lbs of firepower; inert Paveway laser-guided bombs and ASRAAM air-to-air missiles. We wouldn't mess with it either #WESTLANT19
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#F35ondeck🇬🇧. Cdr Nathan Gray RN touched fast jet wheels onto a @RoyalNavy flight deck for the first time in just under 8 years. We have since been flying daily introducing the @thef35 to 4.5-acres of floating Sovereign power🇬🇧. #bigdeckfastjets. ⚡️#Lightning has struck⚡️
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Setting sail after a successful week in Glenmallan. Thank you @policescotland and @DefenceES 👍
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Here are some photos from our arrival into Japan. 📷 🇯🇵. We were welcomed into #Yokosuka by @JMSDF_PAO JS Ise, JS Onami + JCG Asitaka, and our sailors lined the decks in ceremonial display as the ship's band played! 🎶🎺.@RoyalNavy #CSG21 @UKinJapan
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Waving hello to Singapore 🇸🇬 👋. The super skyline of a magnificent maritime city. Good to see you from the sea 🏙 👀 🌊 . #CSG21 #Singapore @UKinSingapore 🇬🇧
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Count them out 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣. 1st ever 🇬🇧#F35 '4-Ship package' departs for a reconnaissance mission ⬇️ . #F35Friday #CarrierStrike
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🇺🇸Hello #USA🇺🇸. Delighted to announce we have safely transited the pond and are proceeding alongside Mayport Florida for our first port call on #Westlant18 to re-supply before beginning final preps for #F35ondeck🇬🇧. Time to break out Tropical uniform; and the sunscreen☀️
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Not looking at all out of place amongst the @USNavy carrier cousins at Norfolk Naval Station! #WESTLANT19
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Best photo of the day, and probably some of the best ones ever, goes to @ShaunRoster . WOW 😮 We looked at a CGI for years but here it is for real.
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"We embarked the largest air group of 5th generation fighters ever put to sea – finally silencing those who harp on about ‘carriers without jets’ . We accomplished what many doubted possible by forming a sovereign British strike group". @smrmoorhouse . #SuperCarrierSaturday ⚓
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History continuing to be made here on #WESTLANT19 - the first ever take off by a UK Lightning from our British carrier. @RAF_Marham even brought the weather with them! We ❤️the 🇬🇧 on the 'scoop' @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce @17SqnRAF #FlyNavy #bigdecksfastjets #QNLZatSea #UKF35
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Today we stand with our @USNavy and @USMC friends and allies. 🇺🇸🇬🇧 #NeverForget911 #WeAreNATO @USAmbUK
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A @NATO force to be reckoned with is now assembled in the North Sea. This is #CarrierStrike, this is #5thGen power projection - headed by the 🇬🇧 #StrikeCarrier and the 🇬🇧 Carrier Strike Group. Let the games begin. #WeAreHere #WeAreNATO #JW202.🇬🇧 ⚓ 🇺🇸 ⚓ 🇳🇱 ⚡ 🇬🇧 ⚓ 🇺🇸 ⚓ 🇳🇱
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Against a backdrop of calm skies. They're back. Forecast of thunder and #lightning .⚡.#F35
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Disk Brakes Engaged!. Yesterday one of our #F35 performed the Worlds first Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing. With this capability @thef35 can land with increased fuel and munitions load resulting in less wastage. Looks pretty cool too!. #CapabilityIncreased #F35ondeck @USMC
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These are 🇬🇧 #F35 fighter jets, flown by Operational Pilots & maintained by an Operational Crew. Fused with UK Carrier Strike Battlestaff on a 🇬🇧 Aircraft Carrier operated by a trained crew. This is final training on how we will fight; and win. This is #CarrierSeaTraining⚡🇬🇧
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After leaving Japan we joined Ex Pacific Crown. Ships from #CSG21 @JMSDF_PAO & @RoyalCanNavy have been working together, proving interoperabilty. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇯🇵 🇨🇦. We finished lining up for a ceremonial cheer ship with @HMCSWinnipeg as we waved bye to JS Ise and JS Izumo. 👋
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Our last night together as we are scheduled to head out tomorrow for #Groupex and @NATO #JW202. @HMSPWLS will soon head out also to conduct Her first part of @FOST sea training. British Sea Power reborn⚓ #GlobalBritain 🇬🇧 #CarrierAlley. 📸 @MaritimePhotos
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In news that may not break the headlines, a hero was brought back home today. Our thoughts are with her family and those who served with her. #LestWeForget.
A British reservist who died in a rocket attack in Iraq has been repatriated to the UK. Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon was one of three coalition service members killed in an attack on Camp Taji last week.
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When we're busy up top ⚡. We're busy below 🔧. Engineers keep our primary weapon systems serviceable and ready to fly . #F35.#CarrierStrike
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A huge day for all of us here at #WESTLANT19, and the nation, as we landed on UK F35 Lightnings for the very first time. Here is to the start of 50 years of this incredible joint capability for UK Defence @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce #UKF35 #bigdecksfastjets.
Earlier today the UK's F-35 Lightning jets landed onboard @HMSQNLZ for the first time. Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace said: "This is another step toward's the UK's carrier strike capability becoming fully operational.".@RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce
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The second day of our countdown sees a picture of us leaving #Gibraltar after our first overseas port visit. A sure sign that there is 4.5 Sovereign acres poised to protect 🇬🇧 interests 🌏 . #bigdeckfastjets #SovereignProtection #BritishSeaPower
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We will never get bored of seeing these on our decks. Look at those skies. I hear rumbling. could even more ⚡️ be forecast for #WESTLANT19 today? 🤔@RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce @17SqnRAF @OC617Sqn #UKF35 #QNLZatSea #bigdecksfastjets
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Our first 'no-fly' day; a chance to give our aircraft some deep maintenance, and also give our personnel 'a chance' at some vitamin D ☀️ (more like 🌧). After relentless flying it is well deserved before we take them into the #JW202 battlesphere next week.
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Hello Guam! 🇬🇺. A rainy arrival into this beautiful tropical island in the western Pacific Ocean. Very excited to be here! 🌴🌏 #CSG21 #Guam. @nbguam @louleonguerrero @JoshuaTenorio2 @USNavy @UKdefUS
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As the sun sets, we will rise at its dawn to lead the UK Carrier Strike Group into @NATO's biggest yearly exercise, #JW202. 9 Ships.27 Aircraft.3,000 Personnel. #WeAreNATO #WeAreReady. #WeStrikeFromTheSea ⚡⚓
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And count them back in 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣. Reconnaissance mission complete. Friday nights are quite alright in the North Sea at the moment ⚡⚓🇬🇧. #F35Friday #CarrierStrike #F35 #FlyFriday #FridayFunDay
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Double the fun at this double RAS! No queuing for fuel here, @RFATidespring can top up @HMSDefender and us at the same time ⛽ #CSG21 . @RFAHeadquarters @RoyalNavy
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Four-Acres can fit @RoyalNavy @RoyalMarines @RoyalAirForce @BritishArmy personnel in dress uniform. #HeartsofOak played by the @RMBandService is an excellent way to march onto it 🇬🇧⚓️. #Westlant18 #F35ondeck🇬🇧
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⚡Breaking News⚡. The 🇬🇧 led #CarrierStrike Group has successfully completed Exercise Joint Warrior #JW202. First @NATO mission - ✅. #PompeyRevs initiated.
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Welcome to the Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group, USS Philippine Sea and USS Truxtun @USNavy. The Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser and Arleigh Burke-class destroyer have joined us as #UKF35 jet trials continue in the USA #WESTLANT19 #jointcapability @RoyalNavy
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THEY ARE HERE!. Welcome to our F35 jets that have now landed on. Ahead of #UKCSG23 they will now start to practice their deck landings and operating within a taskgroup. Which is your favourite phot? Let us know. #KingsFlagship #JEFTogether #GlobalModernReady @OC617Sqn
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Our friends from across the pond have landed in the UK. They will be working with @OC617Sqn at @RAF_Marham before they both join us later in the month as we embark the most aircraft on a @RoyalNavy carrier since HMS Hermes. #WelcometotheUK 🇬🇧🇺🇸 #F35Friday's are back!
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Protect our Nation and our interests 🇬🇧 #StrikeCarrier. Project air and maritime superiority ⚓ #CarrierStrike. Promote British engineering and military capability 🌍 #GlobalBritain. 65,000 tonnes of proven versatility. #SupercarrierSunday #WeAreQE
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🚨Hostile Aircraft Inbound🚨. #StrikeCarrier daily business as one of our pairs take off in Alert 5 Mode using the stream launch technique. #DoubleTrouble then practiced air combat dogfighting against #Typhoon and other #F35s. #TopGun? Yeah, but 🇬🇧 & better 👊🏻. 🔊🆙️
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Another first! . 🇬🇧 Advanced Short Range Air to Air Missiles (ASRAAM) . Fired by 🇬🇧⚡ jets . Launched from a 🇬🇧 carrier . British 5th generation fighters operating from the sea 🌊. #carrierstrike.#strikewarrior
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❗BREAKING NEWS❗. ⚡LIGHTNING IS FORECAST⚡. #Portmouth apologies for the noise: Standby for the first alongside fixed wing flight from us - and indeed the first launch of a #UKF35🇬🇧 in UK waters. Planned launch at 1230 subject to conditions. #BX14. @HMSPWLS #MondayMotivation👊
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How could we not share this shot of this thing of beauty?! Qualifying MV-22 Osprey to land on our decks in both day and night gives us so much more flexibility. Great skills @USNavy Did you know that RN phots aren't allowed to photoshop their images, BTW? Just saying! #WESTLANT19
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Two more UK Lightnings have landed onboard, as Operational Tests by @17SqnRAF and @OC617Sqn continue. The deck is getting busier and louder with six 🇬🇧⚡️ now embarked, #WESTLANT19 is just a taste of what is to come. @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce #bigdecksfastjets #FlyNavy #QNLZatSea
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And we are off, on a journey like no other. #JustAddJets . Stay tuned for #Groupex and #JW202. 🎥@ShaunRoster
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What a snowy Norwegian welcome 🌨❄️. This was a harbour entry which required precision and focus from all parts of ship.
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Since it is a bit grey out there in 🇬🇧 at the moment. Here are some more pleasant shades to lighten your day. #F35ShadesofGrey #CarrierStrike
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There are fish Fridays,. the #FridayFeeling,. even .@TGIFridays. But nothing beats @thef35 Friday 🌊⚡. 1,2,3 launches for you (spoiler alert: last one is the best 👌🏻). #F35Friday #FridayFacts #FastJets
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11 years between these pictures; the RN has today again launched a jet from a carrier whilst replenishing at sea. This force-multiplier shows the Service's transformation in that time; Invincible to QE class, Wave to Tide class and Harrier to Lightning #WESTLANT19 #backinthegame
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Sun, sea, ships! 📸👋. Today we met JS Ise and JS Asahi and the USS America and USS New Orleans, along with our #CSG21 escorts 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🇳🇱. Great to be working with @JMSDF_PAO @jmsdf_pao_eng @USNavy @USMC
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⚡BREAKING NEWS⚡. It's a 👍 #SAT. @AdmTonyRadakin delegated assessors @FOST have declared we are trained and safe to conduct #CarrierStrike operations. #OST20? Smashed it 👌🏻. #SafeguardRuleNoLongerInForce
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And here they are. Meet our new joiners; BF-04 and BF-05. They are kind of a big deal round here!. #F35ondeck🇬🇧. Photo Credit: @LockheedMartin
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📷 We hope you have enjoyed the photography the team has captured during #WESTLANT19. Leading Phot Dan Shepherd has picked out his favourite 4 – do you agree?
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