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 ...

The Deadly Precision of Aircraft Carrier Flight Decks The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is widely regarded as one o ...

Landing a plane on an aircraft carrier is hard, especially if you're flying the jet aviators have declared the most difficult ...

U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft attached to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 225, 15th Marine ...

An F/A-18F Super Hornet uses MAGIC CARPET technology while performing a touch-and-go on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier George Washington on June 24, 2021. The technology reduces the burden on ...

The Navy's Pacific Fleet says a fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the ...

Both aircraft went down while conducting "routine operations", the US Navy said, adding that five personnel were "safe and in ...

Whereas a land-based pilot can be expected to “grease” the runway, carrier landings demand that naval pilots make a controlled impact—essentially a crash aboard the deck. Landing on an aircraft ...

Aircraft carriers are capable of launching and recovering jets in some of the most challenging environments on Earth. But the one thing that doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to outsiders: why ...

MiG-29 fighter jets, the strike fighter aircraft of the Indian Navy, use the short landing strip of the aircraft carrier, ...