Template:Did you know nominations/United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group 21

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The result was: promoted by Kingsif (talk) 20:44, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group 21

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... that the United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group 21 will be the largest single deployment of the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft since the program started in 2006, with 18 of the aircraft embarked? Source: "it will mark the largest-ever deployment of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters in the history of the program." [1]
- ALT1:... that the United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group 21 will have the largest fifth-generation fighter jet air wing in the world, when it deploys at the end of May? Source: "form the largest fifth-generation carrier air wing in the world" [2]
- ALT2:... that the United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group 21 will visit over one fifth of the world's countries when it deploys between May and December? Source: "will visit more than a fifth of the world's nations" [3]
- ALT3:... that alongside an aircraft carrier, the United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group 21 will include three frigates, three destroyers, two auxiliary vessels, and a submarine? Source: "include Dutch frigate HNLMS Evertsen (F805) and U.S. Navy destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG-68)...a surface fleet of Type 45 destroyers, HMS Defender and HMS Diamond, Type 23 anti-submarine frigates HMS Kent and HMS Richmond, and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s RFA Fort Victoria and RFA Tidespring,” the news release reads. “Deep below the surface, a Royal Navy Astute-class submarine will be deployed in support, armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles" [4]