On this day in aviation history, 80 years ago (December 3, 1945), the first jet takeoff and landing aboard an aircraft carrier took place. Lieutenant-Commander Eric Melrose Brown, the Chief Naval Test ...
In 1940, Japan’s Imperial Navy launched the Yamato and the Musashi—the largest battleships ever built. These massive vessels represented the pinnacle of naval engineering and firepower, yet they were ...
The backbone of a powerful navy is the almighty aircraft carrier. While battleships and destroyers might be armed with fancy cannons and missile launchers, aircraft carriers carry deadly fighter jets ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: PH2 Inks - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. In the aftermath of World War I, the U.S. Navy took a bold step by converting ...
The world's largest and most expensive aircraft carrier has arrived in the Caribbean. U.S. Southern Command announced Sunday that the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group had made its way into the ...
On September 10, China’s third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, departed from the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. On September 11, Japan’s Joint Staff Office reported that at around 1:00 p.m., the Japan ...