Royal Navy Amphibious Task Group Deployment

摘要

In mid-February the largest Royal Navy ATG (Amphibious Task Group) to leave Britain's shores on exercise for the best part of a decade slipped out of Plymouth Sound. It's ultimate destination, following a transit through the Suez Canal to the Far East, was a multinational training package in the primary jungles of Brunei. Along the way secondary exercises or engagements with allies in or off Gibraltar, Spain, Malta, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand were built into the programme. BATTLESPACE joined the fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean in March to cover the CYPRUS WADER '09 exercise phase, where 40 Commando Royal Marines plus supporting arms conducted a series of amphibious raids and landings on the Western Sovereign Base area.