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The US Navy’s great aircraft carrier gamble

Dr. Brent Eastwood tackles the growing argument that U.S. supercarriers are overpriced targets in an era of Chinese ...
The move comes after China deployed groups of warships—including aircraft carriers—in the region to signal its naval power.
The two aircraft—a F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet and an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter, lost in separate crashes in October—were recovered from a depth of around 400 feet.
The US Navy has recovered two aircraft that crashed into the South China Sea in October while flying off the USS Nimitz, the service said in a statement Tuesday.
China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy carrier, two former US carrier officers say, a substantial combat limitation ...
A critical system failed as a Super Hornet fighter jet was landing on USS Harry S. Truman. The jet slid off the deck into the ...