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Less than month after a Russian Navy Mig-29 crashed while attempting to land on their only aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov, a second Russian carrier based fighter jet has been lost. The Sukhoi Su-33 was returning from a mission in Syria when it apparently encountered a problem with the ships arresting cable system. The Russian […]
China’s state media reports that the country’s first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, is now “combat ready.” The ship’s political commissar says the ship is “preparing for actual combat at any time.” Despite the tough talk, all evidence indicates that Beijing’s sole flat top is likely a mere training vessel that would do very poorly in actual combat. Liaoning was commissioned […]
This opinion piece by former SECNAV John Lehman originally appeared in the Naval Proceedings Magazine in September 2011. By John Lehman The swaggering-flyer mystique forged over the past century has been stymied in recent years by political correctness. We celebrate the 100th anniversary of U.S. naval aviation this year, but the culture that has become legend was […]
Watch this cool time lapse video of a full day and night of carrier operations on the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) flight deck. It is pretty impressive to see the amount of movement required to launch and recover aircraft onboard a United States Navy super carrier. The flight deck is one of the world’s […]
The USS Independence, a WWII aircraft carrier sitting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean 30 miles off the coast of Northern California, as seen from an unmanned submersible. It is a breathtaking site. The USS Independence, was sunk more than six decades ago. Now the first images are being shown of the wreck from famed oceanographer […]
Launched in 1942, the Independence served in the Pacific during the war, carrying planes that attacked Japanese forces. It was even torpedoed, in 1944, but managed to stay afloat, and was repaired.
Watch: Footage of F-35C Sea Trial tests aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73) in the Atlantic Ocean. The US Navy’s carrier version of the F-35, the F-35C Lightning II, has been conducting its final sea trial before IOC (Initial Operational Capability). The Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX-23) and the […]
New software is expected to solve the F-35 Generation III helmet mounted display problem. Pilots have complained of too much ‘green glow’, skewing their night vision. A new software load will be tested in the coming days to hopefully eliminate the problem of ‘green glow’. The software should adjust and decrease the contrast of the […]
This is the story of US Navy Chief Gilbert “Chevy” Chavaria, as told by 3 of his VF-154 shipmates. They witnessed his heroic actions to save a life on the flight deck of the USS Coral Sea. Working on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is one of the most dangerous places in the […]
Follow a VF-211 Checkmate F-14 Tomcat around the carrier landing pattern on the USS John C Stennis for day catapults and traps. You’ve all wanted to do this: Man up your F-14 Tomcat for day catapult shots and traps. Sometimes they call it a “Bag-Ex” because you are “bagging traps.” But we will just call […]
The new Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) has yet to be tested with a live aircraft and has had a troubled development past. A recent DoD Inspector General report questioned whether the system should continue and noted reliability of the system is uncertain. Advanced Arresting Gear, the brand new system for catching aircraft on Ford Class […]
A cable used to catch a landing E-2C Hawkeye snapped on the flight deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower back in March. 8 sailors were injured, but the pilot of the E-2C Hawkeye was able to maintain control and keep the plane airborne. Let me tell you what folks, this is scary stuff and […]
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