Boeing is continuing to refine its concept for a next-generation F/A-XX advanced jet fighter to follow the present-day F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. Just in time for the Navy …
America’s looming fiscal crisis delivered real-world consequences last week with a pair of blows to one of the U.S. Navy’s (USN) cornerstones: carrier strike groups (CSGs).
On Wednesday, Feb. 6, …
While we have covered the Pearl Harbor attack extensively elsewhere, both in posts for Defense Media Network and in print, we wanted to commemorate this anniversary with a slideshow of …
While one X-47B was hoisted aboard USS Harry S. Truman for deck handling tests, another was at Naval Air Station Patuxent River for the unmanned combat aerial system’s first catapult …
The future USS Enterprise (CVN 80), will be the third Gerald R. Ford-class carrier to be built, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced via video message at the Dec. …
A Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System-Demonstrator (UCAS-D) is hoisted aboard USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75), marking a milestone in the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and …
It is now 30 years since the Argentineans seized the Falklands, one of the last British colonies, and the British seized them back.
The war between the two included the …
Late on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, a Taliban insurgent force of sappers carried out an attack on Camp Bastion, the NATO ISAF base in Afghanistan, resulting in the worst loss …
When North Korean forces crossed the 38th Parallel on June 25, 1950, U.S. Navy carrier aviators were some of the first to respond. Just nine days later, naval aviators flew …
“It’s nice to be in a place like this where I’m not the oldest man in the room,” said Neil Armstrong to the 2009 reunion of the Flying Midshipmen Association.…
