A large-scale sovereignty mission across the South Atlantic Islands has seen Royal Navy, British Army and RAF assets operate jointly across South Georgia and Ascension Island.
  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    A large-scale sovereignty mission across the South Atlantic Islands has seen Royal Navy, British Army and RAF assets operate jointly across South Georgia and Ascension Island, the UK Defence Journal understands.

    The activity, codenamed Operation SOUTHERN SOVEREIGNTY, was coordinated from offshore by Royal Navy patrol vessel HMS Forth, with air support from RAF Typhoon fighters and an A400M transport aircraft based at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falklands, according to the Cyber & Specialist Operations Command.

    Nothing like displaying your “sovereignty” over an island a few hundred miles off the coast of the southern tip of South America from your home in the UK 8,000 miles away.