British lawmakers underlined that foreign investments in the UK defence supply chain should be restricted to companies from NATO countries or London s allies outside.
US Navy ship, Marine Corps F-35Bs to deploy with British carrier strike group An F-35 takes off from the British Royal Navy aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth. (Dane Wiedmann/Lockheed Martin) The United States and the United Kingdom have signed a joint declaration for the Carrier Strike Group 2021 deployment authorizing U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy personnel and equipment to deploy with the U.K.’s carrier strike group headed by the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth. The Pentagon said Tuesday the arrangement involves a detachment of Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft, along with the U.S. Navy’s guided-missile destroyer The Sullivans.
Marines from 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines coordinated fixed wing close air support at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, successfully dropping 12 inert MK76s from F18s, a first in recent history for the installation, January 14. Close air,
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U.S., U.K. Sign Agreement on Upcoming Deployment of HMS Queen Elizabeth with American F-35Bs, Destroyer
January 19, 2021 11:56 AM
A U.K. F-35B Lightning II on the Flight Deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth on Nov. 6, 2019. UK Royal Navy Photo
The U.S. and U.K. defense secretaries formally signed an agreement outlining their joint participation in the Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group deployment this spring.
Joining HMS
Queen Elizabeth (R08) on its inaugural deployment will be Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211, which flies the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, as well as USS
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Nimitz Carrier Strike Group to Return Home from Middle East Deployment
December 31, 2020 3:48 PM
Vice Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S. 5th Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces, watches the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) from the bridge wing of the coastal patrol ship USS Squall (PC-7) in the Persian Gulf on Nov. 8, 2020. US Navy Photo
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Nimitz (CVN-68) and its carrier strike group will begin transiting from Africa to their West Coast homeports after the acting defense secretary announced today their deployment would be coming to a close.
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group departed San Diego, Calif., in May for a deployment to the Middle East that began in June. The strike group left the Middle East in November for a quick exercise with the Indian Navy and then returned back to U.S. 5th Fleet.