Last week, the Pentagon was abuzz with the news that the U.S. Navy had offered up a sacred cow: the early retirement of…
A Chinese company has tested a supersonic anti-ship missile dubbed an “aircraft carrier killer.” The HD-1…
The United Kingdom’s first new aircraft carrier in decades, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has crossed the pond. The mammoth ship…
Maybe the F-35 program is just not supposed to work out. Despite a week where the system appeared to display a growing…
Three years late and costing $12.9 billion, the USS Gerald R. Ford finally gets commissioned today at Norfolk Naval…
Everything about the aircraft carrier is analyzed these days. How vulnerable they are. How vulnerable they aren’t. …
After years of delays and cost overruns, the British Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth is set to begin a series of…
I know, I know—these types of maneuvers actually have a purpose besides joyriding, like navigation, stress tests and…
When you want to send an international message that can’t be missed, you send an aircraft carrier. When you want to put…
Aircraft carriers are massive floating cities, housing over 5,000 people. They have their own nuclear power plants,…
It looks like after almost a decade of development, the ultra-advanced Gerald R. Ford supercarrier will be commissioned…
The modern aircraft carrier is a global symbol of American dominance, hegemony, peace, even empire. But at over 1,000…
Landing an aircraft on a moving vessel requires a particular kind of precision and know-how that very few human beings…
The troubles of Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, are well-documented. The ship is a relic of the…
President Donald Trump stood aboard the $13 billion USS Gerald R. Ford on March 2 to boast about his plans to increase…
The Nimitz, deployed in 1975, is the oldest U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in service today. Just keeping a small boat…
The old days of majestic wooden or brass wheels that control the rudder movements of grand ships are long gone. Case in…
The United States Navy’s been having a lot of problems getting its electromagnetic catapult system, known as EMALS, to…
Most people have seen videos of carrier flight deck operations before, but usually they’re overlaid with sounds of…
Reports suggest that the super carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and the guided missile cruiser USS Normandy are moving…
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