By: Sam LaGrone Kenneth Braithwaite, U.S. ambassador to Norway, delivers remarks at a reception aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), in Oslo, Norway on June 25, 2018. US … More
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
By: David B. Larter , Valerie Insinna , and Aaron Mehta The first F-35C Lightning II sortie takes off from the U.S. Navy F-35 Strike Fighter Squadron VFA 101 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. A … More
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
By: David B. Larter The carrier Harry S. Truman and the cruiser Normandy transit the Atlantic Ocean. Truman’s deployment has been extended to avoid having it pull into port amid a … More
By: Ben Werner A T-45C Goshawk training aircraft assigned to Carrier Training Wing (CTW) 2 launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) on Feb. … More
By: Megan Eckstein Seaman Sakyra Baker stands aft lookout as an F/A-18 Super Hornet assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7 lands on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier … More
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