The United States Navy has a tradition of naming many of its popular ships after U.S. presidents. Here are five that stand ...

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One can review the General Atomics brochure above. A January 17 Naval News report noted that General Atomics now offers a ...

According to its operator West Air, the aircraft is the first Airbus aircraft globally equipped with a DPOS, which enhances ...

Aircraft aboard CV-67 launched the first major strikes on Iraq on the night of January 17, 1991, lighting up the night sky as the 80 sorties flying over Baghdad were pummeled with heavy fire from ...

16, 2025. Photo by Bryan J. Dickerson for USNI News The remains of the Navy’s last conventionally-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is on its way from the Navy’s Philadelphia ...

So the pilot will see little of the flight deck that he or she is approaching. But Northrop Grumman demonstrated fully automatic carrier landing in 2013 with the X-47B, which achieved much better ...

The ex-USS John F. Kennedy, a decommissioned U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, will travel down the Delaware Bay Thursday on its way to Texas for dismantling. The ship left the Navy Yard in Philadelphia ...

A long-serving aircraft carrier, one that started its life in Hampton Roads, is in its final days. The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) left Philadelphia Thursday for its final voyage.

After a weather-related delay, the aircraft carrier left the U.S. Navy’s Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility in South Philadelphia on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, around 10 a.m. to start its trip to ...

This eliminates the need for the generation and storage of steam, which frees up more space below the deck. It also allows the carrier to launch 25% more aircraft per day than the Nimitz-class ...