Exercise Strike Warrior O Scotland 8 -20 May 2021 UK Carrier Strike Group Deployment 2021 outline Portsmouth HMS Queen Elizabeth sails from (Outward leg) Portsmouth/Solent 23rd or 24th May Possible visit to Yokosuka naval base with F-35s temporarily disembarking Type 45 destroyer & Type 23 frigate to a Japanese air base Exercises in E. / N. Atlantic detach for pre-planned with NATO partners deployment in the Black Sea (maximum time permitted 21 days) MEDITERRANEAN SEA Visit to South Korea Gibraltar Pacic Future Forum Event hosted on HMS QNLZ 31st Aug - 2nd Sept Souda Launch strike missions Bay against Daesh in Syria JAPAN First stop First visit by an aircraft carrier to Transit of the Gibraltar Suez Canal the new facilities at Duqm, Oman Taiwan Strait avoided for a stopover of about a week Exercises with Exercises with Visit Souda Bay, Japanese and NATO and other partners CHINA Crete for logistic US Navy including Italy, Greece, Israel stop and possible INDIA and with French aircraft carrier Duqm vist to Piraeus, Greece in June Visit to SOUTH Exercise Bersa Lima 21 Indian port CHINA in SCS (Sept/Oct) with SEA Australia, New Zealand, ARABIAN SEA Malaysia and Singaore Homeward leg also via Suez Canal Freedom of Navigation PACIFIC OCEAN exercises in the Exercises with Singapore disputed SCS Indian Navy Brief visit to British naval facility in Sembawang, Singapore. INDIAN OCEAN Incomplete outline only. Updated 3/5/21 Deployment covers 26,000 nautical miles and from information in the public domain and will be subject to change. ships of the CSG will visit a total of 40 nations AUSTRALIA.