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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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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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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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Someone needed to leave the ship in a hurry! We do have seaboats you know @takeonGravity #WESTLANT19
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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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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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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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How it started; how it's going....
#ThrowbackTuesday
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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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"Now I am satisfied, thank God I have done my duty".
215 years ago, outnumbered; an unconventional and decisive leader led experienced, well trained @RoyalNavy crews to one of the greatest Naval victories.
To the immortal memory 🇬🇧⚓
#TrafalgarDay #LordAdmiralNelson
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Hello Italy 🇮🇹👋
Our first port stop of #CSG21 - we've been welcomed to the Port of Augusta in Sicily - to resupply, reset and replenish.
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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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Setting sail after a successful week in Glenmallan. Thank you @PoliceScotland and @DefenceES 👍
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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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Not looking at all out of place amongst the @USNavy carrier cousins at Norfolk Naval Station! #WESTLANT19
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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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78 years ago, 617 Squadron undertook the daring raid that earned them the title The Dambusters.
Today we remember them.
@OC617Sqn
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Nature and technology meet in the stunning Scottish scenery.
📷 @iain_masterton
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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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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.
The @RoyalNavy's flagship and first Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier. ⚓️🇬🇧