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The U.S. Navy’s next-generation fighter won’t be jointly developed with the USAF. The next Next Generation aircraft will be designed exclusively for naval service and without cooperation. The unnamed fighter, tentatively named F/A-XX, will replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter on the decks of navy carriers sometime in the …

The US Navy is planning to Run First Sea Trials of electromagnetic railgun aboard a warship, according to new documents detailing the service’s testing and training plans. After more than a decade of research and development and upwards of $500 million in funding, the Navy finally plans on testing its …

U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump made a visit to the USS Wasp docked at the mouth of Tokyo Bay. Aboard the USS Wasp, Trump gave a Memorial Day speech to hundreds of members of the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet. LIVE remarks from @POTUS Donald J. Trump …

Top Gun” sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick,” filmed onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt in February. Here’s What It Was Like to Run a Carrier as the ‘Top Gun’ Sequel Films Onboard Capt. Carlos Sardiello who commands the Roosevelt shares the challenges he faced during top gun filming What they would talk about, …

In this Article, we will share a story on How F-14 Tomcat & F-15 Eagle fighter jets were able to achieve a simulated KILLS against the SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3 Spy Plane. A former Blackbird driver Col. Richard H. Graham, USAF (Ret.), tells in his book The Complete Book of …

U.S. Navy Blue Angels retire Fat Albert C-130 Hercules after more than 30,000 flight hours in 17 years. The current “Fat Albert” has flown her last show. This current airframe, BUNO 164763, has been with the team since 2002 and was the last C-130 to conduct a jet-assisted take-off (JATO). …

The US has a fleet of 11 nuclear-powered carriers, including two different classes, the Nimitz and Gerald R. Ford classes. But the Ford-class only has one commissioned carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and it has yet to see combat, while the USS Nimitz was commissioned in 1975, and has …

Royal Canadian Air Force is looking to replace Canada’s aging fleet of fighter jets with new fighter jets. Four companies are vying for the multibillion-dollar contract for as many as 88 fighters that would replace the RCAF’s 1980s-vintage Hornets, which in Canadian service are designated “CF-18.” Attempts to replace 3-decade-old …

In this article, we will share with you a Story Of The Longest Serving F-14 Fighter Jet In The U.S. NAVY The F-14 BuNo. 159600, better known among Tomcat lovers as Christine was delivered to the US Navy on Jul. 16, 1975. This F-14 was originally a Grumman F-14A-85-GR Tomcat and …

Do you remember one of the most famous scenes of the motion picture, where Maverick and Goose’s F-14 flies inverted above the black two-seat F-5F (AKA MiG-28)? If not in the above video have a look at that stunning scene   Of course, for safety reasons, there wasn’t any aircraft …