Some popular U.S. military aircraft have great nicknames — the Vought F-8 Crusader came to be known ... with the first carrier to use it being Eastern Air Lines. Narrow-body aircraft are ...

All his life, Fraser would cherish and share memories of flying a supersonic F-8 Crusader off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany. His was a peacetime tour of duty. When he returned to ...

To bolster its beleaguered Army of the Republic of Vietnam ally, the U.S. military sent airpower assets in force. As I’ve ...

The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is accelerating the growth of its carrier aviation force. China’s recently completed prototype maritime nuclear reactor suggest it, or the Type 006 ...

machine guns; 4x 25 mm Mk 38 machine guns (LHD 5-8 have three 25 mm Mk 38 machine ... They resemble a small aircraft carrier and are capable of operating with Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing ...

This is a major revision from the 2022 plan, which aimed for 353 F-35Bs and just 67 F-35Cs. The shift reflects an evolving strategy that emphasizes the F-35C's longer range, higher payload capacity, ...

It can carry about 8,000kg of weapons ... remarkably simple picture.” The F-35B variant of the Lightning can take off from the Royal Navy’s two aircraft carriers (Photo: Lockheed Martin ...

America’s newest aircraft carrier is the USS Gerald R. Ford, the only non- Nimitz class ship in the fleet and the first of ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Vice Adm. Daniel Cheever, commander of Naval Air Forces, is confident the Navy will fly its MQ-25s this year and integrate ...