Fighter jets

The UK's only operating aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, set sail for a month's training without any fighter jets on board.

The whole point of getting the F-35s was because it was going to be the carrier aircraft. The cupboard, I would have thought, will be pretty bare with some types of anti-tank systems […] and some anti-aircraft systems,” he said. When you’re doing carrier aviation you need to practice it all the time,” explained Admiral Lord West, a former First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff.