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  • Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea

    05/08/2025 8:51:53 AM PDT · by Blood of Tyrants · 58 replies
    Military.com ^ | 5/7/25 | Konstantin Toropin
    The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday -- the third since it deployed to the Middle East -- this time amid a landing incident that caused the jet to go overboard, defense officials confirmed to Military.com The incident comes just more than a week after the Truman lost an F/A-18 jet and a connected tow tractor when the pair fell overboard while being towed around the carrier's hangar deck. Officials said the most recent incident was caused by a failure in some part of the arresting equipment used to bring the...
  • Second Hegseth Aide Escorted From the Pentagon As Leak Probe Widens

    04/15/2025 9:03:57 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    Red State ^ | 04/15/2025 | Streiff
    A second member of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's inner circle has been placed on leave after an investigation into leaks of potentially sensitive information. Darin Selnick, the Defense Department's deputy chief of staff, was suspended from duty and escorted out of the building. This came on the heels of another Hegseth aide, Dan Caldwell, being escorted out of the Pentagon; see Hegseth Advisor Who Was Included in Leaked Signal Text Chain Escorted From Pentagon, Placed on Leave – RedState.Selnick is a retired Air Force officer and, like Caldwell, was part of a group Hegseth brought with him from Concerned...
  • Chicago: Concealed Carrier Shoots Alleged Car Burglar

    03/28/2025 11:37:07 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 15 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/28/2025 | AWR Hawkins
    A man allegedly trying to break into a car at about 1:00 a.m. on March 25 was shot and wounded by a concealed carrier. The concealed carrier shot the 21-year-old alleged burglar “once in each leg,” WBBM noted. CWBChicago reported the alleged burglar called 911 after the incident and tried feign that he had been shot in a drive-by. However, his pretend narrative was busted when the concealed carrier called 911 to describe what happened. The suspect was transported to a hospital for treatment and placed in custody. Breitbart News pointed out that an armed garbage truck driver killed one...
  • Photos reveal extent of damage to USS Harry S. Truman after Suez Canal entrance collision

    02/18/2025 4:35:31 PM PST · by Libloather · 31 replies
    The Express ^ | 2/18/25 | Hannah Broughton
    The US Naval Forces have released photos showing the extent of the damage sustained on the US Navy aircraft carrier after it collided with a merchant ship last week. The warship, named USS Harry S. Truman, has docked at a US naval facility in Souda Bay, Greece, while it undergoes repairs following the incident near the entrance to the Suez Canal. The ship had collided with the Besiktas-M - a 617-foot-long, 53,000-ton bulk carrier registered in Panama. Both of the ships were traveling in the Mediterranean Sea when they collided. The photos show extensive damage to the exterior starboard quarter...
  • Chinese Carrier Strike Group Deploys to Philippine Sea

    11/25/2024 11:43:08 AM PST · by Retain Mike · 11 replies
    U.S. Naval Institute ^ | NOVEMBER 4, 2024 | Chinese Carrier Strike Group Deploys to Philippine Sea
    On Monday at 11 a.m., the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) confirmed Shandong, together with cruiser CNS Yan’an (106) and destroyer CNS Zhanjiang (165), were sailing in an area 447 miles south of Miyako Island. A map included with the release showed the PLAN carrier strike group (CSG) located east of the northeast tip of the Philippine main island of Luzon.Shandong launched and recovered fighters and helicopters. JMSDF destroyer JS Yugiri (DD-153) surveilled the Chinese strike group, according to the release.The Shandong CSG had previously deployed to the Philippine Sea Jul. 9-18 before returning to its homeport. The carrier deployed...
  • A look at where the Navy’s 11 aircraft carriers are now

    06/20/2024 5:49:30 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 34 replies
    AP ^ | 6/19/24 | Lolita Baldor
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy is weighing what to do about the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, which has been battling Houthi rebel attacks on shipping in the Red Sea for nearly nine months. The question is how to replicate the carrier’s combat power if the ship returns home. The service has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Generally, they are getting ready to deploy, are deployed or have come off deployment and have gone in for maintenance and repairs. The carriers have a lifespan of about 50 years, and halfway through they undergo a major overhaul of their nuclear and...
  • Navy captain censured for deadly AAV accident no longer selected to command aircraft carrier

    06/10/2023 9:25:34 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 13 replies
    Task & Purpose ^ | June 9, 2023 | JEFF SCHOGOL
    The training accident killed eight Marines and one sailor. The former Navy commanding officer of the amphibious transport dock USS Somerset, who was officially censured for a training accident in which eight Marines and one sailor died, will not command an aircraft carrier after all. Navy Capt. John William Kurtz was the Somerset’s captain when an amphibious assault vehicle, or AAV, sank while returning to the ship during a July 30, 2020 training exercise. It was the deadliest training accident involving an AAV in Marine Corps history..... But not long after news broke that Kurtz had been selected to command...
  • USPS Mail Carrier Shot Dead in Democrat-Run Milwaukee

    12/10/2022 9:08:44 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 28 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/10/2022 | Awr Hawkins
    A United State Postal Service mail carrier was shot dead Friday just before 6 p.m. in Democrat-run Milwaukee. FOX News reported that the mail carrier was a 44-year-old man who had been with USPS for 18 years. The man was shot while on the job and died at the scene, according to FOX6.
  • India launches new aircraft carrier as China concerns grow

    09/02/2022 10:29:01 AM PDT · by DFG · 22 replies
    AP via Yahoo ^ | 09/02/2022 | ASHOK SHARMA
    India commissioned its first home-built aircraft carrier Friday as it seeks to counter regional rival China's much larger and growing fleet, and expand its own indigenous shipbuilding capabilities. The INS Vikrant, whose name is a Sanskrit word for “powerful" or "courageous," is India's second operational aircraft carrier, joining the Soviet-era INS Vikramaditya that it purchased from Russia in 2004 to defend the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. The new 262-meter (860-foot) carrier, designed by the Indian navy and built at the Cochin shipyard in southern India, was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of the country's commemoration...
  • £100m F-35 fighter jet crashed into the Med while taking off from HMS Queen Elizabeth because the cheap rain cover hadn't been taken off properly, investigators fear

    11/24/2021 7:18:58 AM PST · by DFG · 54 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/23/2021 | Lauren Lewis
    Investigators fear a £100million F-35 fighter jet crashed into the Mediterranean while taking off because the cheap rain covers had not been taken off properly. Officials believe the rain cover was sucked into the F-35B Lightning II stealth plane's engine as it took off from the flight deck of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, forcing the pilot to eject. Naval personnel reported seeing the cover floating in the sea nearby Britain's flagship aircraft carrier after the accident in the Mediterranean on Sunday. Sources said the RAF pilot realised the issue and tried to abort take-off but was unable to stop the...
  • America's Troubled New Aircraft Carrier Will Finally Go On Its First Deployment Next Year

    10/27/2021 5:03:58 AM PDT · by PIF · 27 replies
    The War Zone ^ | October 26, 2021 | Thomas Newdick
    The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), on the left, and the Nimitz class carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) transit the Atlantic Ocean in June 2020.After multiple issues and delays, the USS Gerald R. Ford is now set to go to sea for its maiden deployment in 2022 The much-delayed maiden deployment for the U.S. Navy’s new aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford is now scheduled to take place next year, four years later than originally planned. The nuclear-powered vessel is the lead ship in a new class of supercarriers, four of which have been ordered, with the three...
  • IKE is Back: USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Wraps Up Back-to-Back Deployments

    07/18/2021 10:40:13 PM PDT · by Drew68 · 21 replies
    USNI News ^ | 18 July 2021 | Sam LaGrone
    ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER – The busiest aircraft carrier on the East Coast is back home after two grueling, back-to-back deployments that kept the ship on station in the Middle East for a total of seven and a half months. Since USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) left for its first deployment on Feb. 20, 2020, the ship has been deployed for 320 of the last 514 days – not counting training exercises and restriction of movement periods that have kept sailors away from family and loved ones. On Sunday, Ike slipped up the James River with...
  • UK Scrambled Sub-Hunting Aircraft As Russian Submarine ‘Stalked’ Carrier In Mediterranean

    07/11/2021 8:58:07 AM PDT · by blam · 17 replies
    Zubu Brothers ^ | 7-11-2021
    UK media on Friday revealed another major military close encounter with a Russian vessel following the June 23 Black Sea warning shot incident – but this time in the Mediterranean where a Russian submarine was said to be “stalking” the Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike Group in the waters. The Telegraph on Friday broke the following based on defense sources: A Russian submarine stalked the Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike Group (CSG) prompting a helicopter hunt for the vessel, The Telegraph can reveal. Merlin helicopters were scrambled to search for the Russian submarine when the group was passing through the eastern Mediterranean.HMS...
  • US Navy Says Carrier Group Operating in South China Sea

    06/15/2021 8:29:27 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    Reuters via Epoch Times ^ | 06/15/2021 | Ben Blanchard
    TAIPEI—A U.S. aircraft carrier group led by the USS Ronald Reagan has entered the South China Sea as part of a routine mission, the U.S. Navy said on Tuesday, at a time of rising tensions between Washington and Beijing, which claims most the disputed waterway. China frequently objects to U.S. military missions in the South China Sea, and the announcement follows China blasting the Group of Seven nations for a statement scolding Beijing over a range of issues. “While in the South China Sea, the strike group is conducting maritime security operations, which include flight operations with fixed and rotary-wing...
  • China Warplanes Simulated Attack on U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Defense Analysts Say

    04/13/2021 8:02:18 AM PDT · by Alas Babylon! · 24 replies
    Newsweak via MSN ^ | 13 April 2021 | John Feng
    A fleet of Chinese warplanes likely simulated an attack on a U.S. aircraft carrier group when a record 25 fighter jets and nuclear-capable bombers triggered Taiwan's air defense radars this week, analysts said on Tuesday. The military operation coincided with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group's (CSG) presence north of the Philippines, and came in the hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed Washington's "serious commitment" to Taiwan and its self-defense. Beijing's use of its People's Liberation Army to intimidate democratic Taiwan became a matter of public record last September when the island's defense ministry began logging aircraft intrusions...
  • Chinese surveillance plane test flight hints at advanced aircraft carrier design

    02/23/2021 6:46:25 PM PST · by RomanSoldier19 · 6 replies
    https://archive.vn ^ | 23 Feb, 2021 | Liu Zhen in Beijing
    There are stronger signs that China’s next aircraft carrier will be fitted with an advanced type of aircraft launch system, with official confirmation of a test flight of a carrier-based early warning plane. State broadcaster CCTV confirmed in a report on the weekend that the KJ-600, the country’s first domestically developed fixed-wing early warning aircraft, had a test flight in Xian, Shaanxi province, in late January. The KJ-600 is designed to operate from an aircraft carrier but its weight and turboprop engines make it less powerful than a jet, requiring help from a catapult for take-off. China has two aircraft...
  • South China Sea tension rises amid US blacklisting, report of Beijing missile fire 'warning'

    08/26/2020 2:01:56 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 20 replies
    FOXnews ^ | 8/26/20 | Bradford Betz
    The U.S. on Wednesday announced it blacklisted Chinese officials and business executives involved in the military buildup of the disputed South China Sea, further ratcheting up tensions in the region ahead of the November election -- the same day that Beijing reportedly fired missiles including an "aircraft-carrier killer" into the sea as a "warning" to the U.S. China had claimed a U-2 spy plane entered a no-fly zone without permission during a naval drill in the Bohai Sea, a military source told the South China Morning Post. The Pentagon has given few details, but said a U-2 flew "within the...
  • As tensions rise in Asia Pacific, South Korea is building its first aircraft carrier ... complete with US-made fighter jets

    08/12/2020 3:56:10 PM PDT · by KC_Lion · 34 replies
    CNN ^ | 12 August 2020 | Brad Lendon and Yoonjung Seo
    Seoul, South Korea (CNN)South Korea plans to start building its first aircraft carrier next year, and acquire fighter jets to operate on it, the country's Defense Ministry has announced. Last year, South Korea hinted at its interest in an aircraft carrier, saying it would build a "multi-purpose large transport vessel." But in its national plan for 2021-2025, published this week, the government for the first time explicitly committed to building the billion-dollar equipment. "The 30,000-ton level aircraft carrier can transport military forces, equipment and materials and can operate fighter jets that are capable of vertical take-off and landing," said...
  • US Navy mocks Iran in meme by claiming they are 'experts' at building ships to be 'targets' after they carried out a missile attack on dummy American aircraft carrier (Meme warfare)

    07/31/2020 11:47:01 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 20 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | July 31 2020 | RALPH R. ORTEGA
    The US Navy mocked Iran for being 'experts' at building a target ship in an Instagram post that showed a bogus American aircraft carrier with a bullseye on it. The Navy proclaimed in a meme, 'IRAN BUILDS TARGET SHIP', revealing an overhead view of the fake vessel sitting at a port, unprotected and vulnerable with a bullseye, and adds across the bottom of the image, 'THEY'RE EXPERTS AT THAT'. The post comes after Iran built the replica of a Nimitz-class carrier and had its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard fire a missile at it in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday...
  • China home-built aircraft carrier Shandong conducting sea trials (China's third carrier)

    05/30/2020 9:02:07 PM PDT · by cba123 · 32 replies
    Economic Times ^ | Updated: May 30, 2020, 12.30 PM IST
    BEIJING: China's Defense Ministry said the navy's only entirely home-built aircraft is carrying out sea trials to test weapons and equipment and enhance training of the crew. Ministry spokesperson Ren Guoqiang said Friday the exercises were being conducted as planned, apparently unaffected by the country's coronavirus outbreak.