A Marine with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 in an F-35B Lightning II accelerates towards the ski ramp aboard Her Majesty’s Ship Queen Elizabeth in support of a NATO Exercise Steadfast Defender 21 mission. Steadfast Defender 21 is a large scale defensive exercise designed to test NATO’s ability to rapidly deploy forces from North America to the coast of Portugal and the Black Sea region. The exercise provides an important opportunity to demonstrate NATO’s ability and determination to defend its territory and alliance interoperability and coherence.

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Keywords: hmsqe, stde, steadfastdefender21