Turning Canberra-class LHDs into aircraft carriers
A in 2014 it was clear the capability was relatively mature, and it kicked off a debate about whether to operate them from ...
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What the New Secretary of the Navy Wants
John Phelan’s tenure as Secretary of the Navy is likely to be one of the most important in recent history. On Tuesday, the ...
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Navy moves carriers to cover Indo-Pacific and Middle East missions
The Carl Vinson and its escorts reached Naval Base Guam on Tuesday, the 7th Fleet announced in a news release that day. The ...
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Shipbuilders swarm Capitol Hill to lobby for aircraft carrier funding
The Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition wants $600 million to secure building of the years-delayed CVN-82.
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Silver Ships delivers 25th Marine Corps AASB boat
The AASB is used for the U.S. Marine Corps amphibious training with Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) and the follow-on ...
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Oldest aircraft carrier USS Nimitz departs for what is likely to be its final deployment
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group departed Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton in Washington for a scheduled deployment to the Western ...
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This Navy admiral just bagged his 1,000th landing on an aircraft carrier
Though carrier traps can be famously terrifying ... a function not of eligibility but of the nature of Marine Corps aviation careers that generally involve spending many assignments at land ...
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Hegseth beefs up Middle East warship presence with 2 aircraft carriers
Hegseth has ordered the carriers Carl Vinson, shown here, and Harry S. Truman to be in the Middle East as the U.S. increases strikes on Yemen-based Houthi rebels. (MCSS Kenneth Ostas/U.S. Navy ...