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Claims Of Aircraft Carrier Vulnerability Are False, But The Versatility Is Real June 10, 2020

Loren ThompsonSenior Contributor Aerospace & Defense Some ideas never go out of fashion, no matter how unfounded they are. One such idea is the belief that America’s large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft … More »

At a budgetary crossroads, the US Navy’s aviation wing must choose between old and new June 1, 2020

By: Valerie Insinna The Navy plans to curtail F/A-18 Super Hornet production in fiscal 2022. It remains unclear, however, whether that effort will be successful. (MC3 Kelly M. Agee/U.S. Navy) … More »

Pentagon Study Would Cut Aircraft Carriers, Undermining Most Useful U.S. Warfighting System April 27, 2020

Loren ThompsonSenior Contributor Aerospace & Defense Defense News reported this week that a Pentagon office has proposed reducing the number of aircraft carriers in the U.S. fleet from eleven to … More »

Defense Department study calls for cutting 2 of the US Navy’s aircraft carriers April 21, 2020

By: David B. Larter The aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower sailed in the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 28. An internal DoD study calls for cutting two aircraft carriers from the Navy’s … More »

Navy Kicks Off Study of Next-Generation Carriers, Naval Aviation March 10, 2020

By: Megan Eckstein An MH-60S Sea Hawk assigned to the Eightballers of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 8 flies next to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and the … More »

U.S. Navy Plans To Stop Buying P-8 Poseidon Sub Hunters Despite Growing Undersea Threat December 3, 2019

The U.S. Navy’s 2021 budget proposal apparently will request no new money to purchase the service’s only long-range anti-submarine aircraft, despite a growing undersea threat and a shortfall in aircraft … More »

Former 4-Star Fleet Commanders: Don’t give up on carriers November 25, 2019

By: Adms. (Ret.) Robert J. Natter and Samuel J. Locklear The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, left, the air-defense destroyer HMS Defender and the destroyer Farragut transit the Strait of Hormuz on … More »

The US still needs aircraft carriers September 30, 2019

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, destroyer Russell and cruiser Bunker Hill conducting routine operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by MC2 Anthony Rivera) Many of the … More »