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Navy Nearly Got A Single-Seat A-6 Intruder Instead Of The A-7 Corsair II
By Emma Helfrich / Updated May 9, 2022
Navy Wants to Send 25 EA-18G Growlers to the Boneyard
By James Deboer / Updated Apr 26, 2022
The Navy Just Received Its First Surplus F-16s From The Air Force (Updated)
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Apr 20, 2022
V-247 Tiltrotor Drone Downsized For Strike Role Aboard Navy Ships
By Dan Parsons / Updated Apr 19, 2022
This Is Our First Look At The Navy’s Next ‘Doomsday Plane,’ The EC-130J TACAMO
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Apr 5, 2022
Navy’s Crashed F-35C Recovered From The Bottom Of The South China Sea
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Mar 3, 2022
F-35C ‘Super Squadrons’ Of Up To 20 Aircraft Could Populate Future Carrier Decks
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 16, 2022
Video Showing Harrowing F-35 Crash Aboard USS Carl Vinson Leaked (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 7, 2022
Why Fighter Pilots Work Intensely For Eight Hours Just To Fly For 30 Minutes
By Colin 'Farva' Price / Updated Feb 1, 2022
Video Shows The Last Moments Of The Navy’s F-35C Before It Crashed Into The Sea (Updated)
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 28, 2022
Navy Exploring Options For Recovering F-35C That Fell Into The South China Sea
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 25, 2022
750 F-35s Now Delivered, Navy To Put Some Of Its Oldest Test Models Into Storage
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 3, 2022
French Rafale Naval Fighters Are Headed To India For Ski Jump Carrier Launch Tests
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 3, 2022
The Wreck Of A Crashed British F-35 Has Been Pulled Out Of The Mediterranean
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 7, 2021
China’s New Carrier-Capable Stealth Fighter’s Canopy Is Its Most Intriguing Feature
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2021
Dramatic Footage Supposedly Of The Moment An F-35 Crashed Off A British Carrier Emerges
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 29, 2021
F-35 From The Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth Has Crashed Into The Sea (Updated)
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 17, 2021
U.S. Navy Adversary Unit Reveals Super Hornet Masquerading As Russia’s Top Fighter
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Nov 1, 2021
These Are The Proposed Paint Schemes For The Navy’s New Adversary Super Hornets
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Nov 1, 2021
China’s Carrier-Capable Naval Stealth Fighter Has Flown
By Thomas Newdick and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Oct 29, 2021
Watch A Royal Navy Wildcat Helicopter Fire Its First Operational Martlet Missile
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Oct 22, 2021
Royal Navy Is Experimenting With Launching Jet-Powered Drones From Its New Carriers
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Oct 1, 2021
Confessions Of A Navy F-14 Fleet Pilot Turned F-5 Aggressor
By Francesco "Paco" Chierici and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 28, 2021
Confessions Of An A-6 Intruder Pilot
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 28, 2021
The Navy Has Received Its First Block III F/A-18 Super Hornets
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Sep 27, 2021
This Is The Most Incredible Super Hornet Footage We Have Ever Seen
By Thomas Newdick and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 23, 2021
Navy Pilot Was Electrocuted By Power Lines After Ejecting From T-45 Jet Trainer: Report
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 20, 2021
Navy Halts Plans To Give Its Super Hornets Conformal Fuel Tanks (Updated)
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 26, 2021
Navy Fighters Are Flying Armed Overwatch Missions Over Kabul
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 19, 2021
Watch The Meditative-Like Ritual The Blue Angels Go Through Before Every Flight Demo
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Aug 10, 2021
The Last Airworthy S-3B Viking Is Set To Fly Off Into The Sunset
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jul 9, 2021
The Most Replayed Carrier Crash In History Happened 70 Years Ago Today
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 23, 2021
An Air Cushion Patrol Seaplane Was Once In The Works With The U.S. And Japan
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 18, 2021
Navy Details Its Plans To Add Ex-Air Force F-16s To Its Fleet
By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 28, 2021
Watch This Lynx Helicopter Land On A Crazy Mock Pitching Flight Deck
By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 18, 2021
With No Ejection Seats, Skyknight Fighter Crews Slid Down A Tunnel To Salvation
By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 5, 2021
U.S. Navy P-8 Maritime Patrol Plane To Join Hunt For Missing Indonesian Submarine
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 23, 2021
Ex-Disney Employees Helped The Thunderbirds Create Their New Shortened Air Show Routine
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Apr 15, 2021
Navy P-8A Maritime Patrol Planes To Get Pods Loaded With Radar Jamming ‘Little Buddies’
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 13, 2021
Navy’s Aviation Boss Lays Out Big Vision For Drone-Packed Carriers Of The Future
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Apr 1, 2021
Behold The Blue Angels And Thunderbirds’ New ‘Super Delta’ Mega Formation
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 2, 2021
F/A-18 Legacy Hornets Have Left The Navy’s Carrier Decks For The Last Time
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 26, 2021
The Navy Got Its Hands On Its First Operational F-4 Phantom Sixty Years Ago Today
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 30, 2020
Why The Navy Is Looking To End Carrier Qualifications Entirely For Its Pilots In Training
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Dec 21, 2020
Watch This Chinese Z-8 Naval Helicopter Fly Just Feet Off The Ground Along A Highway
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 17, 2020
This Video Of The Navy’s Only Special Operations Helicopter Squadron In Action Is Nuts
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 7, 2020
The Forgotten Fireball Made The First Jet-Powered Carrier Landing By Accident
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Navy Hires Boeing To Develop A Very Fast And Long-Range Strike Missile Demonstrator
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Oct 20, 2020