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Iran does not need to put a U.S. aircraft carrier on the bottom. A few hits on a packed flight deck can stop launches...
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Iran does not need to put a U.S. aircraft carrier on the bottom. A few hits on a packed flight deck can stop launches...
EMALS out, steam back in? Such a decision will add time, raise costs, and cause greater strategic damage to a US Navy already scrambling...
Long-term projections envision a Chinese fleet of six to nine aircraft carriers. Beijing currently possesses three. The Liaoning is a converted Soviet hull. The...
General Atomics holds a $1.2 billion contract to build the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Arresting Gear for Ford-Class aircraft carrier USS Doris...
USS Gerald R. Ford spent 326 days deployed, fought in two major operations, suffered a serious fire and now faces months or even a...
USS Nimitz is still commissioned, but its combat career is over. A new refit would cost billions and consume years of scarce shipyard capacity.
Russia began overhauling Admiral Kuznetsov after its troubled Syria deployment. Then the PD-50 drydock sank, a 70-ton crane tore through the flight deck, and...
A Mk 24 magnesium flare ignited inside USS Oriskany’s forward locker on October 26, 1966. Rocket warheads detonated, smoke swept through officers’ quarters, and...
USS Wasp carried the offensive power of a fleet carrier on the Navy’s final 14,700 treaty tons. Two Japanese torpedoes did not sink it...
The U.S. Navy built history’s strongest carrier force through experimentation, treaty compromises and expensive failures. These five ships and programs delivered the weakest return:...