The deployment, dubbed “Operation Firecrest,” will include multiple warships, F-35 jets, helicopters, and eventually joint exercises with U.S., Canadian, and Northern European forces. The carrier will also host U.S. fighter jets when it arrives at a U.S. port, according to the U.K. Defense Ministry.

Starmer billed the deployment as “a powerful show of our commitment to Euro-atlantic security,” a statement that comes after significant criticism from President Donald Trump of NATO’s defense capabilities in the region, which he has deemed inadequate to deal with Russian and Chinese threats.

Those near-constant rebukes threatened to fracture the U.S.’s relationship with Europe, especially as Trump flirted with a military takeover of Greenland, the Arctic island owned by Denmark.

The tensions have since simmered after a framework for a deal on the island was agreed to by Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte last month, and as NATO surges military assets to the region.

Earlier this week, NATO launched an effort increasing its defense capabilities in the Arctic. Called “Arctic Sentry,” the mission will include a series of military drills to address the threats Russia and China pose to the region’s security.

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The U.K. Defense Ministry indicated that “Operation Firecrest” would be working in tandem with that effort.

“With growing concern over Russian operations in the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap and the increased risk to critical undersea cables and pipelines, the deployment will send a clear message that the UK will always defend its waters, protect critical infrastructure, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with its Allies,” it said in a statement.