Well we did manage to put nine aboard
Illustrious for Exercise
Deep Blue in 2014 - her last hurrah. The Merlin (HM/Pinger) force has been reorganised to provide an enlarged 820 NAS for the carrier, 814 NAS for UK based operations and Type 23 flights, and 824 NAS for training.
In other news - HMS
Queen Elizabeth has returned from the WESTLANT 18 deployment.