🌂'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
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🇺🇸⚡️
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 🇬🇧 ⚓ 🇺🇸 ⚓ 🇳🇱 ⚡ 🇬🇧 ⚓ 🇺🇸 ⚓ 🇳🇱
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
And we are off, on a journey like no other. #JustAddJets Stay tuned for #Groupex and #JW202. 🎥@ShaunRoster
⚡Breaking News⚡ The 🇬🇧 led #CarrierStrike Group has successfully completed Exercise Joint Warrior #JW202. First @NATO mission - ✅ #PompeyRevs initiated.....
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 ⚡⚓
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day". Vincent Van Gogh. With sustained flying ops well practiced the deck is green 24hrs a day but nothing beats a night #JetPic. #Groupex #JW202
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.
Good Morning 👋 Some nice views outside Flying Control to start your #SundayMorning. We are giving 'the enemy' a rest today during #JW202 as we conduct a no-fly day to give the upper deck and the largest deployed #5thGen Air Group some maintenance.
Who has the Friday feeling? We have the #F35Friday feeling 😁 as we enter #Groupex and continue to ready for #JW202. #BigDeckFastJets
After a successful @BAES_Maritime short maintenance period it is great to again stretch our sea legs. A brief period to get back into the swing of things before a mounting period back alongside @HMNBPortsmouth. Then, Game Time 🇺🇳⚡🇬🇧⚡🇺🇸 #Groupex #JW202 📸 @PortsmouthProud
After yesterdays 'rest & recuperation', the roar has returned to our flight deck as we enter the penultimate day before #JW202. Ready, jet-set, GO! #LaunchTheJet
Taskgroup for #Groupex and #JW202 has been announced. @NATO's UK led #5thGen Carrier Strike Group will be: @hms_kent 🇬🇧 @HMSDefender 🇬🇧 @hmsdiamond 🇬🇧 @HMSNORT 🇬🇧 @RFATideforce 🇬🇧 @RFAFortVictoria 🇬🇧 HMS 🤫 🇬🇧 HNLMS Evertsen @kon_marine 🇳🇱 USS The Sullivans @USNavy 🇺🇸 Game on⚓
#MondayMotivation in abundance as we fly into the last week of #JW202. The potent mix of sustained land, sea and air domination projected by the 🇬🇧 led @NATO #CarrierStrike Group means victory is near. #WeStrikeFromTheSea ⚡️⚓️
Suspicious aircraft spotted at range by @HMSDefender, and intercepted by our #F35Bs. Meanwhile @hms_kent tracked a suspect submarine whilst @HNLMS_Evertsen kept the surface watch. On, under and over the water - we are securing the area⚓️ #WeAreNATO #JW202 #CarrierStrike
Welcome to #CarrierStrike @RFAFortVictoria. As a solid support Ship, she will enable the UK and @NATO Carrier Strike Group to go further, for longer - and hopefully keep morale high with biscuits. 😉 🍪 #CapabilityIncreased #Groupex #JW202