According to the Portsmouth News, HMS Duncan, a Type 45 Destroyer is now tasked with providing protection for the FS Charles De Gaulle as part of a carrier strike group deployment, Groupe Aéronaval 19.
According to French Minister for the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, the group, which includes Portuguese, Danish, British, Italian, Australian and American warships, would be deployed to escort and participate in various air and naval operations in the Eastern Mediterranean.
After that, it would also carry out exercises in the Indian Ocean and will end the deployment in Singapore during the Shangri-La Dialogue summit.
The HMS Duncan, praised by the Royal Navy as one of the world’s most advanced warships, has been at the helm of NATO’s Standing Maritime Group 2, a task force that conducted naval drills in the Black Sea this year.
After a stay in Albania, in July the destroyer returned to her home-port in Portsmouth.
Sputnik / ABC Flash Point Mediterranean News 2019.
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