Too true - but they could have said 'frigates and helicopters'. I also think that 'sonar radar' is just taking dumbing down to a new level. When speaking in the following video, the Commodore did say 'frigates and helicopters' were able to keep tabs on Chinese submarines, without feeling the need to explain the physics at play.
This is also interesting - I still find it amazing seeing the F-35B land so smoothly compared to Sea Harrier/Harrier.
This third video from the last few days is also interesting - not only are attacks in support of the Army mentioned but the Defence Secretary mentions amphibious capability. If you look at the map of where HMS
Queen Elizabeth and her group have been thus far, it appears that they made a quick detour to the East coast of Africa. In the last week or two one of the
Point class sealift vessels (operated on behalf of the MOD) was in that area. Was this an opportunity to exercise and demonstrate providing defence to crisis response shipping?