During her nearly 40 years, the Kitty Hawk-class variant aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) – the last conventionally-powered flattop built for the U.S. Navy – saw more than a dozen ...

Japan is significantly bolstering its naval power projection capabilities by converting its two Izumo-class helicopter ...

The Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, will go to sea with Carrier Air Wing 2, whose four strike squadrons mostly include F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. The F-35C is the ...

There are exactly six classes of warship all over the world that can launch and land F-35B stealth jump jets. In 2021, the U.S. Marine Corps operated from five of them. The sixth waits in the wings.

Lockheed Martin said: "The F-35 Lightning II is designed and built to counter ... in the maritime and air domains by steadily upgrading the [Izumo-class helicopter carriers] in order to acquire the ...

A California-based Marine Corps squadron has received its first F-35C Joint Strike Fighter jet, which can fly off aircraft carriers and make longer-range flights. Lt. Col. Cedar Hinton, commanding ...

US F-35 Jet Lands on Japanese Navy Carrier in New Alliance Milestone. Published Nov 07, 2024 at 12:02 PM EST. By . ... one of its two Izumo-class helicopter-carrying destroyers, ...

For Japan, the new class of F-35B carriers signals a major shift in defense posture and the acknowledgement that defending their island claims may require high-end warfighting against China's navy ...

An RAF F-35 Just Landed on a Japanese Flattop. ... Tokyo remains cautious in its exact terminology, refraining from explicitly labeling the modified Izumo-class vessels as aircraft carriers.

So the United States in 2019 canceled Turkey’s F-35 deal and ended Turkish industry’s multibillion-dollar participation in the stealth-fighter program. The Turkish military got its S-400s, but ...

The F-35's stealth technology would have been a prize for China. The U.S. Navy has begun to make plans to recover the F-35C fighter jet that crashed Monday after striking the deck of an aircraft ...