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Navy/USMC

U.S. and U.K. Agree HMS Queen Elizabeth Deployment To Use American F-35Bs

Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

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U.S. and U.K. Agree HMS Queen Elizabeth Deployment To Use American F-35Bs

The first take off of an F-35B form the UK's HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier off the east coast of the U.S. in September 2018. (Photo: UK Ministry of Defence)

The U.S. and U.K. defense chiefs signed a joint declaration agreement allowing U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel to deploy in a joint UK-U.S. combined carrier strike group led by the new HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier. The British carrier is set for its first deployment this spring and the new joint declaration will allow the inclusion of a detachment of Marine Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35B aircraft and the Navy’s USS The Sullivans (DDG-68) in the carrier strike group, the…

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