The third and final jetty at Glen Mallan on the shores of Loch Long in Scotland to support the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers has been handed over to its operators.

HMS Queen Elizabeth returned home to Portsmouth 9 December after her maiden operational deployment which took the nation’s flagship to the Indo-Pacific and back.

The ROK Navy conducted a combined naval exercise with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom on August 30, in the East Sea near the Korean Peninsula.

The UK Carrier Strike Group’s warships led by aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth worked with the USS America-led United States Expeditionary Strike Group 7 and two ships from Japan’s Maritime Self Defence Force to prove the ability of the three navies to operate effectively together.

The task group led by Portsmouth-based carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has passed through the Strait of Malacca (between Malaysia and northern Indonesia), rendezvousing with a number of navies along the way.

The Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, also known as JPALS, made by Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, is now deployed on two international platforms.

July 19th - The US Navy announced the participation of the USS The Sullivans in Carrier Strike Group 21, assuming its protection from aerial threats.

The Strike Group will undertake a series of exercises with forces from the US, Australia, France, Japan, New Zealand and Korea in the Philippine Sea in August.

The Queen Elizabeth (UK) and Ronald Reagan carrier strike groups (CSG), alongside the Iwo Jima amphibious ready group (ARG), conducted a large scale joint interoperability exercise in the Gulf of Aden, July 12.

The UK’s Carrier Strike Group has joined the fight against Daesh with F-35 jets carrying out their very first combat missions from HMS Queen Elizabeth.