05 December 2016

News Story: Battle formation of British aircraft carriers, fighter jets to be deployed in South China Sea

A computer graphic of the Queen Elizabeth carrier group
(Image: Wiki Commons)
United Kingdom’s ambassador to the US, Kim Darroch, revealed a military force’s battle formation of British fighter jets and aircraft carriers will be deployed in the South China Sea by the year 2020, RT reports.

Darroch told a Washington-based think tank that UK Typhoon jets currently in Japan would likely overfly the region, with the UK’s yet-to-be-completed Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers that would be operating in the area by 2020.

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