Merlin Mk2s land onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth the Crowsnest radar is mounted on the side of the helicopter In 2016 the UK had moved a satellite in its Skynet military communications system eastward to extend coverage to east Asia and the western Pacific Ocean, and opened a ground station in Australia. While the carrier strike group disbanded and the ships returned to their respective ports, the F-35Bs undertook further exercises from their base at RAF Marham, including partaking in Exercise Crimson Warrior, in preparation for the group's initial operating capability which was declared on 4 January 2021.
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In September 2020, as part of NATO's Exercise Joint Warrior 2020–2, the full carrier strike group of nine surface vessels and accompanying air wing assembled for the first time in the North Sea, under the command of Commodore Steve Moorhouse. 17 Test and Evaluation Squadron of the Royal Air Force) had landed on the Queen Elizabeth 's deck. This exercise also marked the first time that British F-35s (from No. Subsequently, the UK Carrier Strike Group assembled for the first time in September 2019, when the Type 45 destroyer, HMS Dragon Type 23 frigate, HMS Northumberland and the Tide-class replenishment tanker, RFA Tideforce, came together to partake in NATO's Exercise Cutlass Fury, off the coast of Canada. HMS Queen Elizabeth was commissioned on 7 December 2017, and subsequently began the process of operational sea trials and training – including fixed-wing flying trials off the coast of the US. The UK Carrier Strike Group re-formed in February 2015, with Commodore Jerry Kyd appointed as Commander United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group only the next year however, Commodore Andrew Betton succeeded him as commander, as Kyd became the first sea-going captain of HMS Queen Elizabeth. The United Kingdom had been without a wholly-British deployable carrier strike group in almost 40 years and without a deployable aircraft carrier altogether since 2014, when the final Invincible-class light aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious was decommissioned – three years ahead of the two replacement carriers. HMS Queen Elizabeth and her Carrier Strike Group during Exercise Joint Warrior 2020-2 Furthermore, HMS Queen Elizabeth sees the largest number of personnel embarked since she entered service, and the group will contain the largest number of Royal Navy maritime helicopters deployed in over 10 years. The deployment is the largest single deployment of F-35 fighter aircraft since the programme started in 2006, and the largest fifth-generation fighter carrier air wing in the world.
It is the first strike group deployment for the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, and the first operational deployment of the UK Carrier Strike Group since 2011. The Carrier Strike Group is seen as the beginning of the British Government's tilt towards the Indo-Pacific region in terms of defence and foreign policy, that had been announced in March through the Integrated Review. The United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group 21 ( CSG21) is a British-led naval force currently deployed on Operation Fortis since May 2021. HMS Queen Elizabeth, lead ship of the carrier strike group, departing Portsmouth for Exercise Strike Warrior
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