Earlier this month, carrier variant F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jets of the United States Navy’s Strike Fighter Squadron 147 (VFA-147) ‘Argonauts’ joined the Carrier Strike Group (CSG)… Continue reading "United States Navy Deploys F-35C For the First Time Aboard USS Carl Vinson"
Speaking before the US House of Representatives’ Appropriations Subcommittee, US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday revealed that the Zumwalt Class destroyers are planned to become the first ships… Continue reading "Zumwalt Destroyers to Become First US Ships Armed with Hypersonic Weapons"
The US Navy has announced that it has successfully conducted its first ever at-sea replenishment of an F-35C power module. A power module was loaded onto a CMV-22B Osprey of… Continue reading "US Navy Conducts First At-Sea F-35C Power Module Replenishment"
The USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Groups have just launched an exercise the South China Sea. This is the first South China Sea freedom of navigation operation… Continue reading "Large Freedom of Navigation Deployments in the South China Sea Include Two Carriers"
Iran’s ambassador was summoned to the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul today to meet with a senior official from the Ministry, following the Iranian seizure yesterday of… Continue reading "Iranian Ambassador To South Korea Summoned Following Oil Tanker Seizure"
Is the US’s position in the Pacific in terminal decline? In the recent months the situation in the East and South China Seas has been very difficult for the US… Continue reading "Pacific Power Play: The Decline of US Dominance In the Pacific"
The venerable F/A-18 Hornet has been the mainstay of the United States’ carrier fighter wings for decades now but it seems that the navy has quietly begun development of a… Continue reading "Navy Quietly Begins Development of Manned Next Gen Carrier Fighter"
Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3), Team “Battle Axe” has just returned to Naval Air Station Oceana, Naval Station Norfolk, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and Naval Air Station Jacksonville following… Continue reading "CVW-3 Returns from Seven-Month Deployment on USS Eisenhower"
The Revolutionary Guard of Iran Launched a spread of underground-based ballistic missiles this last Wednesday. The missiles were targeted at a mockup of an aircraft carrier anchored in the Strait… Continue reading "Iran Launches Mock Ballistic Missile Attack Against Fake Aircraft Carrier in Strait of Hormuz"
The spread of Coronavirus continues around the world and naval vessels have not been spared. In recent days grave news has come from around the world about crews being infected.… Continue reading "Coronavirus Hits the World’s Navies"