In the interwar years, the U.S. Navy tried a radical idea: turn giant rigid airships into “flying aircraft carriers.” -USS ...
ABOARD THE USS GERALD R. FORD — The Navy’s newest carrier strike group is putting hard-earned lessons from the Red Sea into practice, drawing on the fleet’s recent combat experience to shape its ...
Naval aviators believe they are the best pilots on earth — just ask them — and the primary reason they cite is hard to argue with: they land on aircraft carriers. Whether in calm seas and sunshine or ...
In 2015, the French nuclear attack sub Saphir slipped through the screen of USS Theodore Roosevelt’s carrier strike group ...
The HMS Prince of Wales has nearly returned from its months-long excursion to the Indo-Pacific—but British officials insist that the warship is still at full strength.
Britain’s aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has been placed under Nato command for the first time as ex-Navy chief warns ...
The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and destroyers Thomas Hudner, Ramage and McFaul in 2023. (MC2 Malachi Lakey/Navy) President Donald Trump’s decision to shift the nation’s most advanced aircraft ...
Whereas a land-based pilot can be expected to “grease” the runway, carrier landings demand that naval pilots make a controlled impact—essentially a crash aboard the deck. Landing on an aircraft ...
The UK's flagship aircraft carrier is ready for war after deploying across the world in a demonstration to Vladimir Putin of ...
Even the most landlocked layman knows an aircraft carrier when they see one. Their long, flat flight deck allows them to carry, launch, and land aircraft, and they are immediately recognizable from ...
The USS General Ford, the biggest and most advanced aircraft carrier in the American fleet is now joining at least eight warships and a nuclear submarine already deployed in the waters off Latin ...