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China Is Training To Sink U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers February 3, 2021

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 »

Why The Navy Is Looking To End Carrier Qualifications Entirely For Its Pilots In Training December 22, 2020

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 »

No Margin Left: Overworked Carrier Force Struggles to Maintain Deployments After Decades of Overuse November 13, 2020

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 »

A Fleet without a Rudder October 22, 2020

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 »

Why Secretary Esper’s Call For Light Carriers Would Make The U.S. Navy Weaker October 14, 2020

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 »

BRING BACK THE SEAPLANE July 2, 2020

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 »

The Aircraft Carrier We Need June 22, 2020

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 »

Navy Clear on Causes of Physiological Events in Pilots; Final Recommendations Released for PE Mitigation June 19, 2020

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 »