Moray Firth military exercises: Aircraft carrier sails this way
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The HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier is heading this way to take part in Exercise Joint Warrior.
A total of 14 stealth jets have touched down on the warship's decks as she prepares to take part in NATO's largest annual exercise.
Two squadrons of F-35B stealth jets, the RAF’s 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) and the US Marines Corps VMFA-211 (The Wake Island Avengers), have joined the 65,000-tonne carrier as she sails for exercises in the Moray Firth and North Sea.
The 14 fighter jets are the most to operate at sea from a Royal Navy carrier since HMS Hermes in 1983 – the year after the Falklands War.
They also mark the largest concentration of fifth generation fighters at sea anywhere in the world.
Also on board are eight Merlin helicopters.
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