The U.S. Navy will put out in the next few months a request for proposals for a multiplatform EASR that it plans to install on its aircraft carriers and large amphibious vessels,
MoreThe U.S. Navy still expects to take in the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier in March 2016 despite a redesign of the warship’s arresting gear, the Daily Press reported Thursday. Hugh
MoreThe U.S. Navy has moved to complete a requirements review for the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance Strike program and postpone competition until fiscal 2016, Reuters reported Monday. Rear Adm. William Lescher, deputy
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel kicked off his three-day visit to China on Monday with a tour of the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning, Reuters reports. Phil Stewart writes a U.S. official said that
MoreChina has begun building its second aircraft carrier, Agence France-Presse reported Sunday. Construction of the carrier in the northeastern port of Dalian will take six years, the report says. Wang Min, Communist
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The U.S. Navy flew the unmanned X-47B combat air system demonstrator over the weekend to test its ability to work in tandem with an aircraft carrier, CNet reported Monday. The drone performed test
MoreThe USS Gerald R. Ford is the first of the next-generation class of U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and its flight deck has been completed, according to a News Channel 3 article. Huntington Ingalls
MoreChina has formally commissioned the countryâs first aircraft carrier called Liaoning, according to a Bloomberg report. This move comes less than a month after pictures surfaced of a new stealth fighter, reportedly
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