A series of images show HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Albion with American assault ship USS Iwo Jima off the Scottish coast.
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(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brenton Poyser)What ships are you looking at?
Presenting…
🇬🇧HMS Queen Elizabeth
🇬🇧HMS Albion
🇬🇧HMS Lancaster
🇬🇧RFA Tidespring
🇬🇧RFA Mounts Bay
🇬🇧HMS Diamond
🇬🇧HMS Defender
🇺🇸USS Ross
🇺🇸USS Arleigh Burke
🇺🇸USS The Sullivans
🇺🇸USS Iwo Jima
🇺🇸USS San Antonio
🇫🇷FS Normandie
🇩🇰HDMS Esbern Snare
🇳🇴HNoMS Otto Sverdrup pic.twitter.com/9dQEvnVmPp— UK Defence Journal (@UKDefJournal) May 18, 2021
There are tonnes more images to be released, stay tuned!
That`s an impressive amount of NATO steel !
Yup !
Gosh, these pictures are like water to a very thirsty individual! Fantastic stuff. Really hope events like these and the pressure of having two carriers forces an uplift in warship numbers and in the creation of lph ships of some degree. Am genuinely optimistic about this.
Agreed! I doubt that having two carriers will prompt a flurry of uplift in escort numbers although I understand that we will go from 19 to 21 escorts in the fullness of time (via a figure of 17!). Not sure we will ever have the 2 carriers on task together, except as a PR stunt, hence we have enough escorts at 19 – 21.
What does ‘1ph’ mean?
Good to see the ships are practicing social distancing….be interesting to know what steel lurks beneath the waves too.
Very impressive indeed. I like Gareth’s comment; “…be interested to know what steel lurks beneath the waves…”. I would imagine it’s like the tip of an iceberg – 90% of the fleet’s firepower lies beneath the surface.