Why sell billion-dollar carriers for a penny? Because scrapping them costs a fortune. -Decommissioned supercarriers like USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy are massive, hazardous, and expensive to ...
Almost 50 years ago, the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and the guided missile cruiser USS Belknap (CG-26) ...
The USS Nimitz’ upcoming retirement will leave the United States short an aircraft carrier until the new USS John F. Kennedy replaces it—now scheduled for 2027. For the first time in more than two ...
Aircraft carriers are among the largest and most complicated pieces of military equipment to ever exist. These giant machines are so complex to manufacture that even the United States has only 11 of ...
President Donald Trump told U.S. troops aboard USS George Washington at Japan’s Yokosuka Naval Base on Tuesday that the first batch of missiles for Japan’s F-35 fighter jets "will arrive this week," ...
No Cold War carriers have been preserved as museums, and it is disappointing that CV-63 or CV-67 couldn't be saved from the scrappers. In 2022, the United States Navy sold its two final conventionally ...
Two U.S. Navy aircraft from the USS Nimitz — a Sea Hawk helicopter and an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet — crashed during separate "routine operations" over the South China Sea on Sunday, with all ...
The US guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG-107) arrived on the Northern coast of Trinidad this morning, a modern instrument of war and conflict now moored just 24 miles from the Venezuelan coast ...
The USS Gerald R. Ford’s deployment to the Caribbean, but away from the fragile situation in the Middle East, raises serious questions about America’s military readiness. The deployment of the United ...
The USS Ford, currently deployed to the Mediterranean Sea, has been ordered to sail to the U.S. Southern Command’s Area of Responsibility as tensions keep rising. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell ...
When Debby Rotundo was in grade school in the early 1960s, she remembered seeing President John F. Kennedy stepping out of an airplane at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. It is ...