This bespoke four-month deployment, currently named Cougar 15, is the annual deployment of the UK’s high readiness maritime joint expeditionary force aimed at demonstrating the Royal Navy’s ability to keep Britain safe and improve her economic security by being able to deploy a highly effective maritime force anywhere in the world.
Exercise Cougar
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Joint Expeditionary Force (Maritime) PHOTEX
More here: https://www.facebook.com/NavyNewsUK/pos ... 0741105404
As it is now known as JEF(M), perhaps this thread should be renamed too.
More here: https://www.facebook.com/NavyNewsUK/pos ... 0741105404
As it is now known as JEF(M), perhaps this thread should be renamed too.
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Looks good, but wheres the escorts?
Assuming its meeting up with the T45 that's int he med? any T23 scheduled to exercise with them?
Assuming its meeting up with the T45 that's int he med? any T23 scheduled to exercise with them?
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Presumably they will join up with HMS Daring in the Gulf, not sure about Diamond in the Med. I haven't seen or heard anything about a Type 23 joining - HMS Portland is in the south Indian Ocean, presumably heading to the South Atlantic, unless she's redirected north to join the task group.shark bait wrote:Looks good, but wheres the escorts?
Assuming its meeting up with the T45 that's int he med? any T23 scheduled to exercise with them?
HNLMS Rotterdam was spotted near Rota, I had hoped she would join the JEF at some point.
I'd have to check my records but I believe the last time the "task group" sailed from the UK with a dedicated frigate escort was 2012/2013. To date no Type 45 destroyer has been an integral part of the task group from beginning to end, just making do with whichever one is already in the region.
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Re: Exercise Cougar
UK powers up Albania defence partnership
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-p ... um=twitterUK is building a stronger relationship with Albania by working side-by-side on NATO exercises and beyond, the Defence Secretary has said.
During a two-day visit to the capital Tirana and the mountain training area of Biza, Michael Fallon met Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Defence Minister Mimi Kodheli and witnessed British forces participating in Exercise Joint Effort, a ten-day exercise aimed at improving mutual effectiveness on operations.
In talks with Mrs Kodheli, Mr Fallon said the UK was a firm partner of Albania with deep links through NATO. He said that the UK would be appointing its first ever resident Defence Attaché and would work with Albania to meet security challenges in the Balkans.
Today, he met soldiers from the Army’s Grenadier Guards and Royal Marines from Kilo Company 42 Commando as they joined Albanian troops and personnel from the US, Kosovo and Montenegro in Biza. Around 150 UK personnel are taking part in the combined field training exercise.
It is the first major exercise to be held in Albania after the announcement that Albania will contribute a Light Infantry Company to the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) when the UK leads the force in 2017.
Albania is an important training destination for the UK. Next month approximately 1,500 Royal Navy personnel will take part for the fifth consecutive year in the amphibious exercise Albanian Lion. Joining 250 members of the Albanian Armed Forces, UK participation will include Royal Navy capital ships HMS Ocean and HMS Bulwark, RFA Mounts Bay and MV Eddystone. The exercise will also include lead elements of a Royal Marine Commando group, Royal Navy divers and Commando engineers.
Albanian troops have also recently participated in Exercise Venerable Gauntlet in Germany, bringing together 3000 troops from 14 NATO nations in another major exercise before the UK takes its leading role in the task force.
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Re: Exercise Cougar
So, JMEF in East-of-Suez area without any escort ships ( destroyers and frigates )?
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-la ... rough-suez
What a disgrace...
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-la ... rough-suez
What a disgrace...
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What's her position about heavily armed, well prepared and overmanned armies?
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What's her position about heavily armed, well prepared and overmanned armies?
Oh, noone's ever heard of Fortune favoring them, sir.
According to General Tacticus, it's because they favor themselves…
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Re: Exercise Cougar
What's happened to RFA Mounts Bay? No mention of it passing through the Suez canal.
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passing through the Suez canal.
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