The British Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced May 10, 2012, that the Royal Navy’s (RN) new carriers Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales will operate the F-35B version of the …
Looking to its long-term fighter needs, the U.S. Navy in April announced a request for information (RFI) for what it calls the F/A-XX, a future program to replace the carrier-based …
A two-seat Navy F/A-18D Hornet aircraft crashed into a populated neighborhood shortly after takeoff from Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., on April 6, 2012. Both aircrew were …
USS Enterprise (CVN 65), the U.S. Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier – and at 51 years of age, its longest serving – has left homeport on her 22nd and final …
“I remember those Great Lakes flights very well in the open cockpit that winter. Coldest I ever was in my life.”
— George H. W. Bush
In the wake of …
Capt. Francis Morley, NAVAIR’s Program Manager for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler (PMA-265) says the Navy’s infrared search and track system (IRST) is on course for a 2016 …
Tom Hudner had no idea how things were going to unfold on Dec. 4, 1950. As a carrier-based Navy pilot flying an F4U-4 Corsair of squadron VF-32 “Swordsmen” from the …
A decade into the effort to renew and enhance the Navy’s critical airborne battle management command and control platform, the E-2 Hawkeye, Northrop Grumman’s new E-2D is on track for …
“From the sea…” was a strategic doctrine that might have included jet fighters if the Convair F2Y Sea Dart had succeeded.
The Sea Dart began as Convair’s entry to a …
In the 1950s, the U. S. Navy saw itself being left out of all-important strategic bombing duties while the Air Force seemingly monopolized the mission with 2,000 long-range bombers ready …
