Craig Munro – Metro April 22, 2025
The Royal Navy is sending its flagship halfway around the world to demonstrate to the UK’s foes and allies that ‘we mean business’.
HMS Prince of Wales is leading the international Carrier Strike Group (CSG) on its way to the Indo-Pacific region after leaving the harbour at Portsmouth earlier today.
Crowds lined the walls of the harbour to wave it off, as meets up with warships from Norway and Canada on an eight-month deployment titled Operation Highmast.
Along the way, the group will participate in exercises, operations and visits with 40 countries from the Mediterranean to Australia.
Commodore James Blackmore, the commander of the CSG, said the 65,000-tonne flagship will send a ‘powerful message’ when it appears over the ocean horizon on its travels.
He said: ‘It’s about supporting key trade routes that exist from the Indo-Pacific region to the UK, and supporting partners and allies in the region, showing that we are there as a capable and credible force should it be required.
‘That in a time of crisis, we can come together and fight together and show that we have a capability that we mean business with.”
The top Navy figure added: ‘Working closely with partners from across the globe, Operation Highmast will demonstrate credible deterrence and our support to Nato and the rules-based international order.
‘This will reaffirm that the UK is secure at home and strong abroad and reinforce the UK’s commitment to the Indo-Pacific.’
Among the formidable fleet will be tanker HNoMS Maud and frigate HNoMS Roald Amundsen, both from Norway.
Canadian frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec, British frigate HMS Richmond and RFA Tidespring from the UK’s Royal Fleet Auxiliary will also join.
On top of that, a contingent of 18 F-35B jets from the UK will be added in the days after deployment, with six more joining later.
There will also be Merlin Mk2 anti-submarine helicopters from RNAS Culdrose and Merlin Mk4 Commando and Wildcat helicopters from RNAS Yeovilton, as well as T-150 Malloy and Puma drones.
In total, there will be 2,500 military personnel – about 2,100 British and 400 from Norway, Canada and Spain – making up the mammoth deployment.
Captain Will Blackett, commanding officer of HMS Prince of Wales, said his crew had been training ‘very, very hard for over a year now’, but they were now ‘good to go’.
He added: ‘I grew up in Portsmouth, I went to school about a mile away, and I sat on the Round Tower as a 10-year-old saying ‘One day, I’d like to be the captain of a warship’, and I was in the crowd watching an aircraft carrier leave.
‘Somehow, I’m about to be the captain of an aircraft carrier, leaving in front of 10-year-olds sitting at the Round Tower, and for me, it’s a momentous moment.’
First up on the CSG agenda is a Nato exercise off the coast of France to test aerial defences before the ships move to the Mediterranean to work with the Italians.
Captain Blackett said: ‘This ship is a fantastic machine, she’s got amazing equipment – state of the art – and we’re very proud to take her around the world.
‘But it only works because of the magic that’s brought to it by the people on board.’
Nice story, but aren’t aircraft carriers easy targets? It reminds me of the HMS Hood.
“The Royal Navy is sending its flagship halfway around the world to demonstrate to the UK’s foes and allies that ‘we mean business’.”
Ha Ha Ha – meanwhile the former country of England is actively being invaded.
“Captain Blackett said: ‘This ship is a fantastic machine, she’s got amazing equipment – state of the art – and we’re very proud to take her around the world.”
Hey ‘cap’ will you be so proud when it is sunk by just one guided missile?
“‘But it only works because of the magic that’s brought to it by the people on board.’” — You can’t make this crap up! It’s full of queers, lesbians and other affirmative action hires Ha ha ha .
“‘But it only works because of the magic that’s brought to it by the people on board.’”
No, it only works when you have a Nazi elite who don’t give a crap about the economy, and can throw a minimum of £1.735 billion into the South China Sea.
Note, there’s no training with the Spanish, because they’ve told Nazi Amerika to feck off, we’re with China. This and Spain’s position on Gaza has led to a spate of weaponised weather attacks on major tourist regions, including islands.
The best thing that could happen to this carrier, is that it gets sunk by the Chinese, thus saving us a small fortune.
It will be interesting to see the UK’s reaction when their £3,000,000,000 warship, is sunk by a small swarm of $10,000 Russian kamikaze drones, or one hypersonic missile.
Lets hope it sinks.
Captain 10 year old is just about to wake up from his nap. Made out of Chinese parts, European electronics, the cheap flotilla of British assembled boats will be shedding parts as they go on their gay cruise around the world. They are being prepped for disaster, will sink in some sort of fake battle, shown on cgi , with the sailers drowning , sharks circling . They want to start a fight with the Russian navy, who are in on it as well and play their scripted part.
What was Putin’s comment when asked about HMS Prince of Wales sister ship, HMS Queen Elizabeth?
Oh yes, I remember now.
He said “Ah yes, it’s a very nice ship. It will look good sitting on the sea bed”.
A good mate of mine worked on the construction of these two ships for several years.
He claimed they were of such poor quality that they should never put out to sea.
HMS Queen Elizabeth has just returned to Portsmouth after four months of repairs were carried out in Scotland. The ship had been withdrawn from a NATO exercise due to propeller shaft problems.
Is this yet another multi-billion pound fiasco?
“The Royal Navy is sending its flagship halfway around the world to demonstrate to the UK’s foes and allies that ‘WE MEAN BUSINESS”
LMFAO!!!!! 😅😂🤣
LOL!! Are they kidding? The Jew-Ruled Limeys are even talking about sending troops to Ukraine, in order to get blown away by the Russians! The west is poised to commit suicide for Rothschild Jewry! How absurd!
i miss nico
Don’t worry Nico will return under one of his many aliases. He is currently on a training exercise with the paras.
You’ll notice the weirdo is back with his Nazi stuff.
Full house..
I suppose this floater flotilla will resemble Wacky Races… as they bump and grind their way to the Indo-Pacific, which incidentally is on the other side of the whirled to the Russkies sunken navy in Crimea..
which brings to mind an Old Joke Grandpa told me…
“Whats the best way to view the Italian Navy?”
“through a glass bottomed boat”…
A small fleet of autonomous kamikaze drones would sort out these monster ships in short order no?
Ah … the same ‘supership’ that started to sink before it went anywhere and still breaks down regularly. And doesn’t even have the right planes …
The thickbrits are hopelessly delusional. The Chinese could wipe out the lot in minutes.
“There are two types of ships:
submarines and targets.”
that guy with all his natzi stuff is the twatmaster of bullshit
“The “Royal” Navy is sending its flagship halfway around the world to demonstrate to the UK’s foes and allies that ‘we mean business’.” BWAHAHAHAHA You sure do mean business, fella….and some people could take that seriously…if this were 1800.
“Crowds [of bleating retards] lined the walls of the harbour to wave it off, as meets up with warships from Norway and Canada on an eight-month deployment titled Operation Highmast.” … Any deranged lout in the crowd who used anything more than one finger to “wave” should have been used for extra target practice for the machine-gun crews as they pushed off.
And “operation highmast”, huh? I bet…because there is going to be more sodomy on that floating toilet (er, what was the name again, HMS Felchbuckett?) than a gay pride festival in San Franshitsco.
starmer sends the navy into the pacific but cant even protect its own shores from toerag migrant armies,
muslim rapes of 1400 young girls
notting hill migrants mugging white folk in the area
all allowed by starmer
Abracadabra – first you see it, then you don’t! It’s disappeared in a mushroom cloud. Now that’s what I call magic!🤢
Carl Jones–nice to see you looking after the “Economy” Can you see what it is yet? (Rolfy voice)
One of those Brit rust buckets meeting up with Davy Jones could provide the perfect solution for starting the planned ww3…..a bit like Pearl Harbour.
However Iran is very knowledgeable about jewish tricks.
Hopefully they’ll be aware of all the crypto jews in the British government…..Including the jewess deputy Prime Minister!.Are they aware the Britain’s internal secret police (MI5) is headed up by a crypto.
UK and ScanEagle timeline:
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(Dec 2012) Iranian TV shows off ‘captured US ScanEagle drone’
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-20591336
(Jul 2013) UK Royal Navy Is Latest Customer for Scan Eagle UAS
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2013-07-05/uk-royal-navy-latest-customer-scan-eagle-uas
(Oct 2013) Iran provides Russia with a copy of ‘captured’ US spy drone
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1337581/iran-provides-russia-copy-captured-us-spy-drone
(Jul 2016) British Navy Plans To Let ScanEagle Drone Go Next Year
https://www.defensenews.com/home/2016/07/19/british-navy-plans-to-let-scaneagle-drone-go-next-year/
(Sep 2019) Royal Navy shock: Crucial ‘spy in the sky’ drone SCRAPPED as Iran strengthens aerial power
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1175199/iran-news-royal-navy-drone-ScanEagle-gulf-crisis
(Aug 2020) Carrier HMS Princes of Wales to be used as ‘drone testbed’
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/carrier-hms-princes-of-wales-to-be-used-as-drone-testbed/
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