The maritime might of Britain and the US was on show last week as HMS Queen Elizabeth took part in exercises with American warships off the coast of Scotland.
Among the US carrier strike group was the USS George H W Bush, which is hosting more than 60 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines as they prepare for life on board HMS Queen Elizabeth.
HMS Queen Elizabeth teams up with USS George HW Bush during exercises off Scotland
Telegraph Reporters
9 AUGUST 2017
The Telegraph
The maritime might of Britain and the US was on show yesterday as HMS Queen Elizabeth took part in exercises with American warships off the coast of Scotland.
Among the US carrier strike group was the USS George H W Bush, which is hosting more than 60 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines as they prepare for life on board HMS Queen Elizabeth.
HMS Queen Elizabeth sails alongside USS George H W Bush
As part of the drills over the past 10 days, Commodore Andrew Betton, Commander of the UK Carrier Strike Group, and his team have been directing jets, firepower and personnel across the task group as they practise fighting off a series of simulated threats from enemy forces.
Britain’s largest ever warship, which slipped out of Rosyth dockyard in June, joined the exercises on Tuesday as it continues its sea trials ahead of its arrival in Portsmouth in about two weeks' time.
British and American warships - carriers, frigates, destroyers and cruisers - as well as a Norwegian one took part in exercises off Scotland
Captain Jerry Kyd, HMS Queen Elizabeth's Commanding Officer, praised the USS George H W Bush battle group as "an awesome embodiment of maritime power projection".
“And given that the United Kingdom's Carrier Strike Group Commander and his staff are embedded on board the US carrier for Saxon Warrior shows the closeness of our relationship with the US Navy and the importance that both nations place on the delivery of the UK's Carrier Strike programme.
"HMS Queen Elizabeth is at the start of her journey to generate to full warfighting capability, but we are working hard to ready ourselves to take our place in operations and the line of battle alongside our closest allies."
HMS Queen Elizabeth teams up with USS George HW Bush during exercises off Scotland
Among the US carrier strike group was the USS George H W Bush, which is hosting more than 60 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines as they prepare for life on board HMS Queen Elizabeth.
HMS Queen Elizabeth teams up with USS George HW Bush during exercises off Scotland
Telegraph Reporters
9 AUGUST 2017
The Telegraph
The maritime might of Britain and the US was on show yesterday as HMS Queen Elizabeth took part in exercises with American warships off the coast of Scotland.
Among the US carrier strike group was the USS George H W Bush, which is hosting more than 60 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines as they prepare for life on board HMS Queen Elizabeth.
HMS Queen Elizabeth sails alongside USS George H W Bush
As part of the drills over the past 10 days, Commodore Andrew Betton, Commander of the UK Carrier Strike Group, and his team have been directing jets, firepower and personnel across the task group as they practise fighting off a series of simulated threats from enemy forces.
Britain’s largest ever warship, which slipped out of Rosyth dockyard in June, joined the exercises on Tuesday as it continues its sea trials ahead of its arrival in Portsmouth in about two weeks' time.
British and American warships - carriers, frigates, destroyers and cruisers - as well as a Norwegian one took part in exercises off Scotland
Captain Jerry Kyd, HMS Queen Elizabeth's Commanding Officer, praised the USS George H W Bush battle group as "an awesome embodiment of maritime power projection".
“And given that the United Kingdom's Carrier Strike Group Commander and his staff are embedded on board the US carrier for Saxon Warrior shows the closeness of our relationship with the US Navy and the importance that both nations place on the delivery of the UK's Carrier Strike programme.
"HMS Queen Elizabeth is at the start of her journey to generate to full warfighting capability, but we are working hard to ready ourselves to take our place in operations and the line of battle alongside our closest allies."
HMS Queen Elizabeth teams up with USS George HW Bush during exercises off Scotland
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