By Peter Suciu Depiction of Chinese missiles attacking the U.S. Navy. Image: Chinese Internet. Last September the China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) posted a video via its Weibo social media account … More »
The Navy wants to overhaul how it trains its pilots due to recent innovations that have hit the fleet and the prospect of a new jet trainer. BY JAMIE HUNTER DECEMBER 21, … More »
By: Megan Eckstein USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) pier side in 2017. US Navy Photo Navy aircraft carrier operations are up 40 percent this year over last year, even as the service … More »
By Lieutenant (junior grade) Artem Sherbinin, U.S. Navy October 2020 Proceedings Vol. 146/10/1,412 The Navy could soon deploy the Dwight D. Eisenhower and Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike groups—again. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) spent a record 206 … More »
Loren ThompsonSenior Contributor Aerospace & Defense I write about national security, especially its business dimensions. On October 6, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper laid out his vision of what the … More »
DAVID ALMAN On December 8, 1941, Japan attacked the Philippines and destroyed nearly half of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ bombers along with a third of its fighters on the ground. Yet, … More »
By JERRY HENDRIX The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Midway, with assigned Carrier Air Wing 5, entering Subic Bay, Philippines, 1981 (PHCS Steven Harris, USN/U.S. Defense Imagery Photo/VIRIN DN-ST-84-00324) A strategic design update … More »
By: Megan Eckstein Lt. Joshua Chester, a Navy pilot from Lorton, Virginia, poses in front of an F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to the “Sunliners” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 81 on … More »