The USS Wasp (CV-7), shaped by the limitations of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, is often cited as the worst aircraft ...

The U.S. Navy has historically been cautious about selling its capital ships, such as battleships and aircraft carriers, to ...

The remains of U.S. Navy pilot Jay Ross Manown Jr. were laid to rest on Oct. 29, 2024, at Maplewood Cemetery in Kingwood, ...

The $1 billion carrier JS Kaga belongs to Japan, which is adding fixed-wing aircraft to some of its ships for the first time ...

Aircraft carriers have been a crucial element in combat since they were invented, but they didn't see combat against each ...

The U.S. Navy is home to one of the largest and most formidable fleets of aircraft in the world, by a long shot. Its history ...

This week, Japan announced that a U.S. aircraft carrier will arrive at its home port near Tokyo in mid-to-late November for ...

On 6 August 1945, the same day the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, an English soldier lost his life in a plane crash ...

It was the first time he landed troops on an enemy-held island in World War II. Unscathed, he went on to make five more ...

Unlike its two sister variants, the F-35A and the F-35C, the F-35B can land vertically like a helicopter and take off in very short distances according to its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, allowing ...

KINGWOOD, W.Va. (WBOY) — For 80 years, the family of World War II Navy Lieutenant Jay Manown Jr. thought they would not be ...

Douglas David Smith was a 21-year-old from Exley Head serving with the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Following ... part of the first licensed dig for a WW2 aircraft in NI. Mr McNee also mentioned ...