Chinese land, sea, air, and rocket forces held massive joint military exercises around Taiwan on Monday. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said these intimidating drills were meant as a “stern warning to the separatist acts of ‘Taiwan independence’ forces.”
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed they attacked the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
A UK aircraft carrier slotted to lead the largest post-Cold War NATO exercises will not set sail after a problem with its propeller was found.
Supercarrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower will need to return to U.S. and the UK is ready to replace her with a British carrier, minister says.
Britain “won’t hesitate” to join the U.S. and take “direct action” against Houthis in Yemen its Defence Secretary has said.
The United States is sending a second aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Eisenhower, to join the U.S.S. Ford in the eastern Mediterranean to deter Iran from opening a second front against Israel from Lebanon using the Hezbollah terror group and its rocket arsenal.
The United States and Turkey held their largest joint military exercise in seven years last week, including Turkish F-16 fighters flying alongside American F-18s and a port call by the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday claimed a Chinese spy plane was able to monitor a joint naval exercise between the United States, France, Canada, and Japan and gather valuable intelligence on the ships involved, including two American aircraft carriers, USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday commissioned India’s first indigenously constructed aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant.
The Chinese Defense Ministry ratcheted up its belligerent rhetoric on Tuesday by threatening to aim “new missiles” at American planes and aircraft carriers near Taiwan, if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) proceeds with her planned visit to the island next month.
The launch of China’s third aircraft carrier on June 17 was an expected – actually slightly delayed, thanks to coronavirus lockdowns – step toward the aggressive Communist power challenging the ability of the United States and its NATO allies to project power across the seas.
The decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk completed its journey to Brownsville, Texas, this week where she will be scrapped by International Shipbreaking Limited (ISL).
China’s first operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, and its strike group sailed near Japan on Monday and held combat drills in the Western Pacific on Wednesday.
A USS George Washington sailor’s suicide marks the third time in a week a sailor assigned to the vessel has killed themself, per reports.
The Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong made a provocative passage through the Strait of Taiwan on Friday, just hours ahead of a scheduled phone call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
Satellite photos of the Taklamakan desert in central China published on Sunday revealed the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has constructed full-sized mockups of several U.S. warships, including an aircraft carrier, apparently for missile target practice.
The UK continues to strengthen bonds with allies with a rare example of “quad carrier operations” on China’s doorstep.
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II made a quick visit Saturday to the Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier that bears the name of her eponymous forebear, ahead of its maiden operational deployment.
Airline passengers might be required to step on the scale or divulge how much they weigh before boarding an aircraft, according to a report.
The United States offered advanced F-18 naval fighter jets to India during Tuesday’s “2+2” meeting in Hyderabad between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and their Indian counterparts.
The U.S. Navy said it has called off a search in the North Arabian Sea for a sailor who is believed to have fallen overboard on Sunday.
More than 1,000 sailors aboard a French naval aircraft carrier have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus, of whom some 50 percent have no symptoms at all, French media report.
France has announced that 50 personnel aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.
Chinese state media on Tuesday rather unsubtly decided this would be a good time to chat with a panel of “experts” about the possibility of using an electromagnetic pulse weapon (EMP) against American ships that enter portions of the South China Sea illegally claimed by Beijing. The timing suggests it was a bit of saber-rattling by a Communist Party nervous about its power and prestige after the Wuhan virus disaster, but some degree of escalation in the South China Sea has long been a concern for the U.S. Navy and ships from across the free world.
The U.S. Navy is planning to name an aircraft carrier after Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller, the first black man to receive the Navy cross for valor.
China sailed its newest aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait for the second time on Thursday as it stepped up its claims in the South China Sea, the Taiwanese Defense Ministry has announced.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday attended the commissioning ceremony for the Shandong, China’s second aircraft carrier and the first to be constructed domestically.
Various news agencies report a fire broke out Thursday on Russia’s sole aircraft carrier as it stood alongside for repairs in an Arctic shipyard, with at least one worker reported missing.
One man hopes he is part of the Green New Deal’s plan to ditch fossil-fueled aircraft and is seeking FFA approval for his electric plane.
Satellite photographs analyzed by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) appear to show construction underway at the Jiangnan shipyard in Shanghai on China’s third and largest aircraft carrier.
Multiple sources on Monday confirmed Washington deployed the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier battle group to the Middle East after U.S. allies warned Iran was planning to attack Americans in the region, possibly through terrorist or Shiite militia proxies.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed the suggestion by her anointed successor to pursue a joint European aircraft carrier, a major symbol of military capability only operated by a handful of nations worldwide.
The Japanese government announced on Tuesday that it will deploy aircraft carriers for the first time since World War II as part of a defense strategy that will involve purchasing a great deal of American military hardware, a course of action U.S. President Donald Trump has strongly urged.
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its battle group arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday, a friendship visit widely interpreted as an easing of tensions between the U.S. and China just a few weeks after the Chinese refused to allow a U.S. warship to dock in Hong Kong.
Taiwan’s latest military exercise began on Tuesday with a simulated attack on coastal bases by Chinese warplanes hypothetically launched from the Liaoning, currently the only functional aircraft carrier operated by the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
China’s first domestically-designed aircraft carrier departed the Dalian shipyard on Monday for its second sea trial, having made a number of improvements and adjustments after its maiden voyage in May.
The China National Nuclear Corporation began taking bids to construct a nuclear-powered icebreaker on Thursday, taking what the state-run Global Times happily described as “a move to prepare for the construction of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.”
China responded on Monday to criticism of its heavy bombers landing on a South China Sea airstrip by insisting it was all part of a routine training exercise and said the United States is the party that threatens regional stability by sending warships on freedom of navigation patrols through territory claimed by Beijing.
China’s first domestically produced aircraft carrier, which has not been given an official name yet, began sea trials on Sunday morning.
China’s latest show of naval force occurred on Sunday in the East China Sea, where the aircraft carrier Liaoning led a fleet of undetermined size in live-fire combat drills.
