I do wonder what all you critics will say when HMS Queen Elizabeth takes part in a NATO exercise like Deep Blue - which must be overdue since we have not done one since 2016? Showing that we can protect crisis response shipping from submarine and air threats - and enhancing stability in the North Atlantic and European region?
Personally I dislike pictures of task groups in tight formations as it paints a thousand wrong words. The whole point of a task group is that it spreads out over a considerable area. As I and others have tried to say, the carrier's aircraft work with frigates and destroyers to provide capabilities. In some ways it would be more accurate to describe surface warships in a carrier group as consorts rather than simply escorts.