Panaji: After completing the first deployment in the Indo-Pacific region since 1997, The Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike Group has arrived in Mumbai and Goa for Kengames Konkan Shakti throughout the week which will last until October 27.
While most of the UK Carrier Strike Group was deployed to the coast of Mumbai, type 23 fregat, HMS Richmond, had arrived at Mormugao Port Trust for a port visit after that he would sail to participate as an enemy in war games.
HMS Richmond and two Indian naval warships will act as a red force, whose missionary purpose is sinking or crippling the fifth generation aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.
“The design of the goal is still successful, but basically the mission ultimately gets constructive killings of the aircraft carrier.
And if it works it will be professional and useful if we do it correctly,” said Commander Hugh Botterill while talking to reporters at MPT.
Konkan Shakti is a tri-service war game that is simulated, and HMS Richmond will not use live missiles or round ammunition when walking and hunting for HMS Queen Elizabeth.
However, this exercise will help HMS Queen Elizabeth’s crew use the skills to ward off enemies in hostile waters.
Indonesian aircraft generation of fifth HMS Queen Elizabeth recently resolved its first spread where she sailed through the Taiwan Strait, which is part of the contested South China Sea.
HMS Richmond also participated in the monitoring and enforcement mission of UN sanctions to enforce sanctions imposed on North Korea.
The frigate collected by proof of vessels that violate UN sanctions (PBB) applied to North Korean ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons proliferation.
A brief operation was the first opportunity since 2019 that the Kingdom Navy ship has supported the monitoring and enforcement of UN sanctions.
Talking about the passage through the Taiwan Strait, Botterill said that the royal navy wants to show and strengthen the UN Legal Convention on the UN (UNCLOS).
“What we subscribe is the international rule-based community and what HMS Richmond did with the group’s strike groups show our practice, our rights under the UNCLOS,” the Commander said.
Botterill said that when British looking for a greater role in the security dynamics of the Indo-Pacific region, the royal navy wants to increase its presence in the area, especially the spread of the group’s strike groups.
The spread of the British transport group in the West Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean Region was the first since 1997.
Royal Navy has also started a permanent deployment of two offshore patrol ships, HMS Spey and HMS Tamar in the Indo-Pacific region.
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The application of five years aims to increase the presence of Britain in the region.
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