The British aircraft carrier group will visit Singapore in 2025

London, October 27. . A British aircraft carrier group will visit Singapore as part of a tour of the Indo-Pacific region next year. This was stated in a statement from the office of the head of the British government, Keir Starmer, issued after a meeting with Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Vaughan.

“The Prime Minister (Starmer) briefed Prime Minister Wong on the UK's aircraft carrier strike group program for the coming year, adding that he was pleased that the ship would be visiting Singapore,” it said. speak.

The aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, commissioned into the fleet in 2017, sailed to the Indo-Pacific region under the command of a group of British Navy ships in 2021, illustrating the British foreign policy strategy, which increasingly pays attention to the region. The carrier group's second trip to the region, including a visit to Japan, is scheduled for 2025.

HMS Queen Elizabeth and similar design HMS Prince of Wales, commissioned in December 2019, are designed to carry 36 F-35B vertical amphibious fighter aircraft and four helicopters each , but if needed, they can carry about 70 fighters each. Both ships, with a budget of nearly 10 billion USD, have repeatedly undergone costly repairs due to frequent problems. British media quoted sources in the British Navy earlier this year writing that to save money, HMS Prince of Wales could be scrapped or sold to another country.