HMS Queen Elizabeth is currently on contractor sea trials off the coast of Scotland where met up with a taskgroup of ships taking part in Exercise Saxon Warrior.

F-18 Super Hornets from the USS George H.W. Bush have performed a flypast of HMS Queen Elizabeth.

Watch the British Army stage a brigade level exercise as part of a Land Combat Power Visit on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.

BAE say the Type 26 Frigate will be a highly capable ship undertaking a wide range of roles from high intensity conflict to humanitarian assistance.

Trials are simultaneously underway for both HMS Queen Elizabeth and F-35B Lightning before they come together in 2018 but just what do sea trials involve?

Footage shows when HMS Queen Elizabeth met the Cunard cruise liner MV Queen Elizabeth off the coast of Scotland.

The F-35A made its aerial demonstration debut at the Paris Air Show in front of crowds of thousands.

Watch as footage shows HMS Queen Elizabeth conduct vital system tests off the coast of Scotland. 

Aerial footage filmed by a camera drone shows the sheer scale of HMS Queen Elizabeth as she left Rosyth Dockyard and went to sea for the first time.

Tugs have mounted a huge operation to move supercarrier HMS Queen Elizabeth out of Rosyth Dockyard.