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National Security Journal on MSN1d
Wasp-Class: The U.S. Navy Has ‘Mini Aircraft Carriers’
The Wasp-class amphibious assault ships, led by the USS Wasp, are vital assets for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. -These ...
National Security Journal on MSN14h
The U.S. Navy Feared Russia’s Only Aircraft Carrier Might Sink
The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is a perfect icon from the Soviet Union-era, aged, unreliable, and poorly ...
The National Interest1mon
A U-2 Spy Plane On an Aircraft Carrier? The CIA Tried It Once
the carrier would be positioned into the wind, providing up to 30 knots of wind-over-deck into the nose of the landing aircraft. The result was a landing speed just above 50 knots—remarkably slo ...
The Aviationist16d
U.S. Navy’s Next Trainer Jet Won’t Need to Land on Carriers
which allows new pilots to train on land bases for the entire approach and landing maneuver as performed on the aircraft carrier, just short of the arrested landing. With the new requirement ...
Marine Corps Times on MSN7d
What Marine Corps aviation has in store over the next five years
Among developments, Marine aviators should see more F-35s, upgraded MV-22 Ospreys, more cargo aircraft and data-enabled ...
Kiii3 News26d
Navy's first woman to qualify to land a jet on an aircraft carrier did it on the USS Lexington
“The LSOs (landing signal officers ... U.S. Navy photograph taken the day Denkler qualified to land on aircraft carriers. Banta is the Executive Director of the USS Lexington Museum.
The Aviationist24d
USS Nimitz Sets Sail For Likely Final Deployment
The Nimitz did see F-35Cs land on its deck during trials, and in fact saw the type’s first ever arrested landing on board an aircraft carrier. Nimitz, however, has not deployed with the F-35C ...
Newsweek26d
China's Rivals Flex Aircraft Carrier Muscles
Cross-deck landing refers to aircraft from a foreign ... held the final planning conference onboard the French Aircraft Carrier. France's Indian Ocean Maritime Command said in a press release ...