This Navy admiral just bagged his 1,000th landing on an aircraft carrier
With a thunderous bang, a Navy F/A-18 slammed onto the deck of the USS Carl Vinson on Feb. 16, snagging a steel wire with its ...
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USS Nimitz Sets Sail For Likely Final Deployment
Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base ...
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Map Shows US and Chinese Aircraft Carriers in Pacific This Week
This photograph captured on March 11 by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellites shows the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson operating in the Sea of Japan. This photograph ...
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Oldest aircraft carrier USS Nimitz departs for likely last deployment
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group departed Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton in Washington for a scheduled deployment to the Western ...
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A U-2 Spy Plane On an Aircraft Carrier? The CIA Tried It Once
In August 1963, in the dead of night, under the cover of darkness, a Navy crane was used to hoist a U-2 onto the deck of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier. As the Kitty Hawk steamed north from ...
China Has Developed ‘Powerful Weapons’ to Destroy U.S. Aircraft Carriers. The Effects Could Be Devastating.
We spoke to experts about the worst threats to America’s aircraft carriers—and how the Navy could defend its floating fortresses.
From USS Nimitz to USS Ranger: Aircraft carriers homeported in Bremerton over the decades
With the arrival of the USS Ronald Reagan in Bremerton in 2024, the city now hosts two Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft ...
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China is working on an enormous aircraft carrier that rivals the biggest in the U.S. fleet, analysts say
China’s three current aircraft carriers have the capacity to launch jets from only three parts on the front and the waist, or center, on the deck ... The United States has 11 supercarriers ...