@KenV tactical air group (TAG) basically you drag asssts as required from other formations based on required tasking. So a F35 squadron, some Metlins, green and blue, maybe chinooks and wildcats.
there is an issue that some RAF oriented views see deploying F35s as an option, or just a half squadron. Makes no sense to me! I can see one the carriers, when the TAG is amphibious oriented, only having a 1/2 squadron, but think that will never be a normal or strike config. When QE deploys in 2021 I expect it to have a full UK squadron and a USMC squadron. The normal becoming 2 squadrons of F35, sithbsurge ability beyond that!
now that does depend I think on us standing up 4 frontline squadrons of F35b. If some people get their way and we split the buy I can’t see that happening. That to my mind seriously undermines CEPP, the whole point of the carriers!