Britain’s high-readiness aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, will sail today for the Arctic Circle to support a secret multinational mission, the UK Defence Journal has learned.
The vessel is being deployed to act as an emergency landing option should “a classified cargo aircraft” require its usage.
We earlier reported that Typhoon jets will be deploying to the Arctic for what is intended to be a secret escort mission involving a cargo aircraft. We believe these deployments are related.
Speaking to NATO Admiral Feliz Navidad, we were told that this special cargo mission is being supported by both NATO and Russian assets. Other commentators have noted that the loading of provisions would be unusual as the craft is rumoured to be elf-sufficient and shouldn’t need anything else.
The Royal Navy told us:
“Part of HMS Queen Elizabeth’s previous trials involved the fitting of STOVL (Sleigh Take Off and Vixen Landing) equipment allowing for this kind of aircraft to land and take-off from the carrier.”
We understand that the undisclosed cargo is to be revealed nationwide on the morning of the 25th of this month, but only to good boys and girls.
According to Foreign Office spokesman Nicholas Cringle:
“We’ve received a request for assistance to support a multi-national air transport mission being launched from a currently undisclosed location within the Arctic Circle. As such, HMS Queen Elizabeth is being redirected to provide emergency provisions and a ‘back up’ option should the cargo aircraft involved need to land and refuel.”
An MoD spokesman, Noel Joy, had this to say:
“Interception is part of what the QRA force do. We have to identify and confirm who or what is flying through our airspace or approaching our airspace and since the craft appears at the same time each year, we have a fairly good idea who will be flying but we don’t take any chances.”
The Ministry of Defence used satellites with infra-red sensors to track the aircraft last time this happened, it is understood that the heat from an animals red nose was clearly visible and it was at this point RAF aircraft began escorting the bright red aircraft over every British city, town and village.
UPDATE: We understand the provisions HMS Queen Elizabeth has been loaded with include Brandy and small biscuits. Also, this is just a Christmas joke designed to brighten your day in case you haven’t yet realised. As a bit of fun, look for the comments saying ‘not so secret now!’ or ‘so secret it’s on social media!’ as they’re getting coal this year for not actually reading an article before sharing or commenting on it.
Puts on Slippers, Pulls up Comfy Chair…. gets settled in to watch the festive spirit this will undoubtedly generate…… Lol…. It’s definitely Christmas now !!! Merry Christmas George and your team of fellow Shed Dwellers .
Jingle watch thanx UKDJ
A Merry Christmas to George, all the team at UKDJ, and to my friends and fellow commentators in the comments section.
Dan and Debbie x
Mate, It’s been a real laugh and a great pleasure to be a fellow commentator here all these years with you and so many others……. George has the best site anywhere in my humble opinion, long may it continue. Merry Christmas to you both. one day I’ll DM you mate…. see what I did there ? 😄
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Hear hear! As a relative arrivé on this site please permit me to say UKDJ is a feast of excellent, informed and rational debate: long may it continue, best wishes to the ‘Regulars’ here for the festive season, you know who you are 😉
Er, mostly rational, rest of message still applies!
Depends how long you’ve been lurking! We have a lunatic side.
Merry Christmas Pat.
Touché, Daniele. PS is UKDJ a registered ‘care in the community’ venue? Just asking, based on recent apparitions…
Day visits only.
I’ll have them put up a sign at Reception 👌
Merry Christmas Daniele, I hope your new year is a good one.
Thank you Jonathan. And a Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Good Morning Daniele and Debbie and the same to you, George and all the great lads on this wonderful site(are there any women here😉?) I hope you all have a peaceful Christmas and great New Year.
Cheers from one day hot,five days rainy Durban
Morning my friend. Merry Christmas.
I can think of one, Ulya, the Russian lady, allegedly.
There’s one in the Headquarters, She puts out some of these Articles and a Few appear on Facebook in the comments section.
Just spotted this Danielle. My daughter is a Deborah. Happy Christmas to you both. Have a good break. Stay safe my friend.😃
And a happy Christmas to you my friend.
Debbie, “Busy Bee” I think it means?
Does she use the full name, Debbie, or just “Debs”?!
Yep. busy bee sums her up. She is Deborah at work mostly and Debs to everyone else. 🎅
Merry Christmas Geoff. Have a good one pal 👍🎄
Merry Christmas mate. Have a cracking Christmas and New Year mate. All the very best to the family 🎄👍
Hi my friend. Thank you. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Rudolf the red nose sailor, had a very shiny…….better stop there, or I won’t get any prezzies. Yo Ho Ho.
Does Santa hand out synthetic sustainable coal to the bad boys and girls these days? You were pretty close to finding out. 😉
Do you have to do this every year? (Bah humbug accepted) – I’m on here to read the very topical defence news and the articles are already short and light – but still worth a read. These creaky gags are taking up space which could be filled with extant news. More detail please – less infantile giggles. Yes i’m a miserable old …….yes, Santa, elves and faries – YAWN.
Stop it.
Just WTF were you even trying to type there mate …… In all my years, I’ve never seen such a monumental Spell checker fail …… ?
Hahahahahahaha!!!
Sorry, but that WTF has just got you on Santa’s naughty list, Frank no pressies for you.
WTF is very apt though… I still have no idea what the Author was trying to write… Any Ideas ?
Nope, I hope you have a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year.
Thanks mate, same to you……. Burried the Father In Law on Wednesday, It’s a somber Christmas for us again this year, another empty seat. He was Ex RAF and worked at Westlands for 40 years, a great character.
Sorry about the bad news it’s a awful time for it to happen my father died Christmas eve 7 years ago, so I know what you and your family are going through. You take care and all my best to the family.
Err… What? Use twice as many words for at least 10 times the meaning
Reminds me of the game where you use the internet bot to translate a text from English into Japanese, then take that output and translate back to English. GIGO
Google Translate at least knows how punctuation works, it doesn’t give you an enormous sentence.
Mmm cross purposes here QE to provide emergency landing and the RAF preparing to shoot him down!🤔
Punctuation please
In all your years lol what are ye 12
Que?
Someone been at the brandy a touch early this year?
Good point
At first I thought he was just incompetent
Que?
I think it’s a badly programmed bot, or way too much brandy?
Err… @GeorgeAllison? His inability to type was funny earlier, this isnt
See you later lol !!!!!😂
Ha…. don’t you just love the lack of intelligence of some members on here ?😁
More ppl sgainst dublin ppl like them no 1 likes u starts ends canterbury
I mean away chase down women children Venezuela are you affraid they have gundog you prefer your victims as helpless like a bird brain
If you can imagine something really old creeping about
Christ, I haven’t laughed this much since the days of Herodotus…..😂
Could the word you are groping for be “plonker”?
Well yes, and many other names could be applied.
Careful, there might be a second coming.
Ha, he was rather ermmm, how can I put it !!!!
He loathed your idea of HMS C PW at Gib with Mr Bell at the “Bellend”
Humour evades some peoples brains, It’s usually hidden behind the enormous Ego. 😎
am actually beside myself now just how long will this carry on for lol….. Ambulance on the way, I hope they can stich up my sides for the Christmas get together….. 😂😂😂
Looks like the Ukrainians were on the look out for Santa as well, they have just shot down three (yes three) SU 34s in one go. Russians have admitted the loss of one
Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Slava Heroyam! 🎄
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇫🇷
Just want to wish everybody a Merry Ramadan or is it Eid, and if it is Eid which one? Here’s to a big fat feller popping up your chimney on Sunday evening/Monday morning and leaving you with a huge smile on your face. Me, I’m about to open a bottle of Leffe and settle down to watch episode 4 of Reacher.
The amazon version of Reacher so much better than the Tom Cruise attempt excellent books and great tv. Enjoy the Leffe I’m just out to meet up with work mates for a Christmas tipple.
👍 👌.
😆Salaams Farouk from Durban
Stay off the James Joyce.
I would seriously refrain the mccans from talking to me seriously look ppk no 1 likes u greek wine drinking piss
Don’t be bombarding me where my email is full of London peadeo offensive talk from legal aid scroungers posing as barristers ok
We all have our version of our lingo we created ill not be talked to by poofs refuse acknowledge facts like 1800s america vikings crawling coast line with no explanation but a constant annoying message from agent Smith you know I mean see that said it really is just offensive and childish greek poof rapist
I have a history very successfully 1 in the family of bearing wankers in wars ur mouth bout leave u another 1
Deadly serious not firt time for trojans greek piss
Well then if we can’t sail it are we not just the pawns in the game of a guy in first person mode staring at a map
Do you write the Ikea instructions for assembling furniture?
Hi George. I see you’re still “floating” this story about “aliens” in the north. May you have a shipshape merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year.
Got me again this year!😃😃😃🤣
Someone get rid of that ‘Christopher’ in the comments; it seems the local loony bin is missing a patient!
S.N.P. defence spokes gender it ?
Does anyone remember Professor Stanley Unwin?
“Hi ho and a jolly welcode to all you surfwide’n interwebber lopers. Here beholdy manifold things Stanley Unwinmost – all deep joy and thorkus for great laugh’n tittery. O yes
Happy Christlode!
Ahahaha, absolutely brill Crabfat. 👍👍😂, seasons greetings to y’all at ukdj, near and far. The ancient matelot’s getting plugged in. Back to me hole 🕳️🔙🙏🎅
Congratulations George your fantasy has been quoted in The Daily Express. Anyhow Merry Xmas to you and your regular members….
Good job!
Merry Christmas To All!🎄
Normally I’d say it’s not nice play away from the support countries arms but in diplomacy style of cricket v Rome part 1. But they will understand a smart strategic move your situstion the game plan the sea control the way of saying we can protect shipping and striking a trade deal have exectly what you need close exectly what you want id ask again about aid but point out how effective the missles are etc and promise to comity to future arms deals you know you will committed to lose 100.00 billion funding tho I don’t actully know if… Read more »
Fyi no shed 3 story 1 bedroom flat bit style garden furniture type none that just attacked by these ppl personally involved been years now man I’m chris ever see platoon dance gook jet black hair buck teeth black gold you know I mean hear sound make window know smell when the attack will come its that fuvking bad
I’m deadly serious I know at assult or assets coning by them weirdos my shop I shit you not morons just straight in there half way pitty full but there dick heads can’t help but hate them I might be considered same have that fucking madness attach it’s self to you could write them like a book been at it with them so long. Never qurrell with 1 enemy too long you will only teach him your art of war
The Christmas tradition continues, happy Christmas UKDJ team and Thank-you for all the great content..and happy Christmas to all the commentators..those I agree with and those I don’t. Let’s all hope for a little bit more peace on earth (obviously sustained by a strong military). Happy Christmas all.
This reminds me of a YouTube channel my kids watch
, she is a singer who runs songs through Google Translate in a few languages..then singing what pops out on YouTube..I think she calls her channel twisted translations…I would suggest it for some Christmas family fun…honestly it’s really funny and can be enjoyed by all generations together.
More Klonkie-Geseende Kersfees!
Does the Jolly Old Elf require cats and traps to operate from QNLZ, or has the RN taught him the intricacies of SRVL landings? 🤔😉
In any event, best wishes to all for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 😊
Dear Santa…. Please can you provide the UKDJ site with a “Block” button… It would get a lot of use particularly on this latest Thread, signed Frank aged 12 (apparently)
My apologies to any one I haven’t replied to the last few days. The magic box crashed and it’s taken six days to get it back on line. No doubt the new year will bring a full share of ups and downs as well but meanwhile a very MERRY CHRISRMAS to everybody connected to UKDJ. Sometimes the news is frustrating and sometimes good but it’s always worth taking part. 🎅🍗🍾😋
US aid debate pushed to 2024 as Ukraine continues to battle Russian drones
US Senate debate on new aid will run into the new year, despite Kyiv push for urgency. Thats the stuff joe I thought yas compromise 1 last bit of defense spending you know it makes sense im confident and when as a leader you make them sorts of decisions because there smart you get respect ppl react in such ways to strong positive decisions
A death savant A th arche type
Bring back Jim…. 😂
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Well done R. Navy and Air Force. Merry Christmas to all the allied service men and women all over the world and may PEACE reign over our world very soon…