English: HMS Illustrious is pictured during Exercise Cougar 12 in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Royal Navy vessel is taking part in Cougar, a three month deployment to the Mediterranean as part of the United Kingdom’s Response Force Task Group, exercising with key allies.
Exercises will include Corsican Lion, which will test the maritime element of the UK-French Combined Joined Expeditionary Force (CJEF), and exercise Albanian Lion which will provide superb faculties for the Lead Commando Group to train with Albanian forces, consolidating our relationship.
The other vessels in the group are HMS Bulwark, RFA Mounts Bay, HMS Montrose, HMS Northumberland and Merchant Vessel Hartland Point.
== {{int:filedesc}} == {{information |description={{en|HMS Illustrious is pictured during Exercise Cougar 12 in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Royal Navy vessel is taking part in Cougar, a three month deployment to the Mediterranean as part of the Unite...
HMS Illustrious is pictured during Exercise Cougar 12 in the Mediterranean Sea.The Royal Navy vessel is taking part in Cougar, a three month deployment to the Mediterranean as part of the United Kingdom’s Response Force Task Group, exercising with key allies.Exercises will include Corsican Lion, which will test the maritime element of the UK-French Combined Joined Expeditionary Force (CJEF), and exercise Albanian Lion which will provide superb faculties for the Lead Commando Group to train with Albanian forces, consolidating our relationship.The other vessels in the group are HMS Bulwark, RFA Mounts Bay, HMS Montrose, HMS Northumberland and Merchant Vessel Hartland Point.