His debut mission was to lead a small division of Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters on patrol over the Russell Islands, just off Guadalcanal, recently taken by the US. Trump administration removes ...

By contrast most Allied fighters such as the US Navy’s Grumman F4F Wildcat were much heavier designs as they incorporated greater protection; something the Zero sacrificed to achieve its stellar ...

A World War II Grumman F4F Wildcat flies past the tower on a low pass at the California Capital Airshow at Mather Airport on Saturday, March 22, 2025. A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II ...

NATHANIEL LEVINE [email protected] A World War II Grumman F4F Wildcat flies past the tower on a low pass at the California Capital Airshow at Mather Airport on Saturday, March 22, 2025.

Law is summoned by Unlimited class president Tom Camp to the lair of Grumman F4F Wildcat Air Biscuit. There, before about 200 people who have just been through one of the most harrowing days of ...

Palmer is most pleased with two recent acquisitions: a Japanese Zero fighter and a Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat, “two really centerpiece airplanes that were major combatants during the Pacific campaign ...

The MCAS Beaufort Air Show returned this weekend, with the blue-and-yellow F/A-18s of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels being the ...

However, previously that was not so much the case. Perhaps also because Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman were all competing for both parts of the manned fighter jets. So, they were all ...

The Navy appears to have placed its first MQ-4C Triton drone order in more than a year with Northrop Grumman. Originally expected to cost $30 million, these drones already cost 4 times that amount.

Northrop Grumman has a strong track record of producing innovative aircraft, including the B-2 and B-21 stealth bombers. Lockheed Martin was initially seen as a strong contender, but the company ...

In Wildcat Dome, published in 2013 and newly translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, she narrates more than half a century of her country’s history, from wartime defeat and American occupation to the ...

Japan’s three historic nuclear events – the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II and the 2011 nuclear plant meltdowns in Fukushima – form a key ...