This is why bigger is better when it comes to aircraft carriers
Let’s face it, the new Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are pretty damn expensive. According to Popular Mechan…
Vought 1600: The plan to put the F-16 on America’s carriers
The F-16 Fighting Falcon has been the U.S. Air Force’s workhorse fighter for more than forty years, and at one point, it looked like a carrier-capable version would do the same for the U.S. Navy. More than 4,600 F-16s have rolled out off the assembly line since it first took to the sky in 1974, … Continued
What happens in a fight between French and Russian carriers
While the Nimitz- and Ford-class nuclear-powered supercarriers operated by the United States Navy tend to grab everyone’s attention, there are other carriers out there. France, India, China, and Russia, for example, all operate aircraft carriers ?…
US aircraft carriers still rule the seas, but Russia and China both have plans to change that
In August, China launched two ballistic missiles that, according to a Chinese military expert, hit a moving target ship in the South China Sea thousands of miles from their launch sites. If true, the test — which came a month after the US deployed two carrier strike groups to the region and a day after a US U-2 spy … Continued
How Russia’s only carrier would fight an American carrier
It wasn’t so long ago that the British and Russians exchanged trash talk over carriers. That all started when the then-Defense Secretary, Michael Fallon, called the Admiral Kuznetsov “<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/26/russia-wil…
What US Navy’s visit to WWII hub means for war in the Pacific
When the USS Emory S. Land, one of the Navy’s two submarine tenders, sailed into the Ulithi Atoll on Dec. 7, 2019, it was a return to a major hub for US operations in World War II and yet another sign the US military is thinking about how it would …
Who is going to pay for the Navy’s newly repaired supercarrier?
The US Navy finally completed the repair work on the propulsion system on its new supercarrier, but two defense contractors are still trying to figure out who has to pay the Navy back for repairs likely to reach into the millions.
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Navy ship trains to rescue astronauts at sea
San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) is underway to conduct Underway Recovery Test (URT) 7 in conjunction with NASA off the coast of Southern California.
URT is part of a U.S. government intera…
Crane crash rips massive hole in Russia’s only carrier
Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, sustained massive damage from a 70-ton crane falling on …
One missing after Russian dry dock sinks around only carrier
Four people were injured and one remains missing after Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, suffered damage when a floating dry dock sank while the vessel was leaving it, officials say.
The waterborne repair station’s …