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But there isnt going to be a new plane called "Tempest". Its just a name for a new technologies partnership called "Team Tempest".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGIOQ4HwUxg (ForcesTV) 14th November 2019 For the first time in nearly a decade, British fighter jets flew from a British aircraft carrier last month. We were the only British broadcaster on board HMS Queen Elizabeth to see the F-35Bs in action. The arrival of the jet...

No. Thats just Indians trying to generate Youtube clickbait cash.

There was a gun salute from Portsmouth dockyard at noon too.

HMS Prince of Wales to arrive in Portsmouth on Saturday 16th November 2019. https://twitter.com/thedronepilots/status/1194949179350618112 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJVP8R9W4AEqu31.jpg Portsmouth predictions (16th): High Water: 13:24 Weather: Cloudy Air Temperature: 9°C/48°F Wind: 8 mph/6.9kts Chan...

PoW neared the Isle Of Wight's west coast, but has turned back west.

PoW's AIS is back on.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/ho ... .4/zoom:11

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJMPOc4U4AA2CHD.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJMPOdAU8AAPzE4.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJMPOc_U0AEC6kI.jpg (@HMSQNLZ) 12th November 2019 Welcome to the Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group, USS Philippine Sea and USS Truxtun @USNavy. The Ticonderoga-class guided...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAdFXfhbGGA (Navy Lookout/RFA Tideforce) 11th November 2019 Jet takes off from HMS Queen Elizabeth while Replenishment at Sea underway with RFA Tideforce https://twitter.com/RFATideforce/status/1193970057241645056 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJHTCg6XUAAS2Y7.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJBH-okX0AEebqp.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJBIGodX0AUOnMa.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJBILRQXkAAfGCz.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJBIOWpWkAAY7tH.jpg (@HMSPWLS) 10th November 2019 Today we paused alongside our industry partners to reflect and pay respect du...

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(Navy Lookout/STRN) 10th November 2019

HMS Queen Elizabeth held Remembrance Day service while at sea on Westlant19 deployment off East Coast of US.

Penny Mourdant is/was Portsmouth North MP, a constituency mostly of 20th century residential suburbs and which also includes parts of the Hampshire mainland. The naval base is in the Portsmouth South constituency, which also includes the city centre, the original Old Portsmouth town settlement. And...

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A baker's dozen is 13.

Britain's Biggest Warship (S2E2) for those who missed it. Watch before its gone. Previous episode is one page back.

A 305 metre (1000 feet) long QE could have physically been built in Rosyth's Dock 1, as the drydock is 315 metres (1033 feet) long. But instead we got two 280 metre (918 feet) long carriers. And what would be the point of extra-long QE's? With the MoD budget as it is, the carriers wouldn't have had ...

(ON THE ROGER) 1st November 2019
Video by Leading Photographer Dan Shepherd.