Tag: US Navy

The F/A-18 Super Hornets employed by America’s Navy as carrier based air-to-air and ground support fighters have earned their reputation among the most effective military aircraft ever to take to the skies. Over decades of service, the Hornet and Super Hornet platforms have proven invaluable to American defense strategy and force projection around the globe, […]

Navy fighter pilots found themselves in a life threatening situation over America’s Pacific Northwest this past February, when the cabin pressure and air temperature systems failed in their EA-18G Growler. The two-man crew from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Nine were cruising at approximately 25,000 feet some 60 miles south of Seattle Washington at the […]

The F/A-18 Super Hornets employed by America’s Navy as carrier based air-to-air and ground support fighters have earned their reputation among the most effective military aircraft ever to take to the skies. Over decades of service, the Hornet and Super Hornet platforms have proven invaluable to American defense strategy and force projection around the globe, […]

After a decade of delayed and reduced budgets, one of the few elements of President Trump’s campaign and ensuing administration that has garnered little criticism from the other side of the political fence has been his efforts to bring the American defense apparatus back to a passable state of readiness. Multiple bipartisan reports have confirmed […]

The U.S. Navy’s greatest threat might not be coming from either the Russian or the Chinese fleets. Natural disasters, events suggest, could be more threatening. Extreme weather phenomena, such as rising water levels, unseasonal hurricanes, and excessive rainfall — arguably caused by climate change — are jeopardising critical Navy infrastructure, and thus pose a national security […]

Last week, the Pentagon shared a classified report with Congress regarding the benefits and negatives of removing Turkey from the F-35 Joint-Strike Fighter production and acquisition program. Now, it’s time for American lawmakers to decide what happens. Turkey is scheduled to receive the initial bunch of F-35s in the summer of 2019. Opponents of the […]

Navy F-14s were retired from service in 2006, and prior to their 1979 revolution, were even sold to nations like Iran. However, since Tehran fell under the control of a hostile regime all those years ago, their F-14 Tomcats have been without a source of replacement parts, as the United States Military not only cut […]

The charge-sheet describing Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward “Eddie” Gallagher’s actions in Iraq has been leaked, and it is disturbing. Chief Gallagher has been charged with four different violations of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). More specifically, Gallagher is accused of murdering a captured fighter by stabbing him in the neck and body; […]

The use of drones has changed the way the U.S. and its competitors conduct combat operations. Yet despite the broad capabilities touted by America’s varied drone aircraft, some combat operations remain too complex for the pilotless planes. For years, air-to-air engagements were among those operations best left to manned aircraft. But a recent announcement from […]

Hurricane Florence, a strengthening Category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, is projected to make landfall somewhere along the U.S. east coast later in the week. The storm could become “one of the strongest strikes on this part of the East Coast on record,” according to a report from The Weather Channel. By noon on […]

According to reports out of the region, the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham intercepted a small sailboat in the Gulf of Aden near Yemen on Tuesday. Navy officials stated that personnel from the destroyer asked the small boat’s crew permission to come aboard as a part of a broader US Naval […]

On Tuesday, a naval mine appeared floating in the waters off the coast of Bainbridge Island in Washington State, not far from Kitsap Naval Base. The contact-style mine seemed to appear out of thin air in the heavily trafficked waterway just outside of Seattle, prompting officials to instruct locals to shelter in place while Navy […]