F-35C ‘Super Squadrons’ Of Up To 20 Aircraft Could Populate Future Carrier Decks
A senior Navy official has said that future carrier air wings could include squadrons of 20 F-35C stealth fighters.
A senior Navy official has said that future carrier air wings could include squadrons of 20 F-35C stealth fighters.
Expert play-by-play and deep insight into exactly what we are seeing and hearing in this viral cockpit video of an E-2C carrier launch.
Not only can you see the formation blast past, but you can also hear it too! The helicopter was hovering so that a photographer can snap an image to commemorate the French carrier Charles de Gaulle and the American supercarrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower training together in the Mediterranean.
One of the biggest air combat exercises is underway at Andersen Air Force Base on the island of Guam and it even looks impressive from space.
After 55 years of service, the Hawkeye is finally getting aerial refueling capability.
The life of the often overlooked “quarterback” of the air wing that goes to work in a dimly lit flying tube to coordinate chaotic air wars from above.
The paper recounts a course of bizarre events that occurred near the USS Nimitz while it was sailing off the Baja Peninsula in November 2004.
The same year the Ranger became the star of Topgun, the carrier sailed with a air wing made up almost entirely of Grumman aircraft.
The supercarrier’s silhouette hasn’t changed much over the past 50 years, but one utilitarian staple of the flight deck has gone the way of the dodo bird.