Many maritime pundits these days express the view that aircraft carriers are doomed. The ships are too large, too vulnerable, and increasingly irrelevant, they say. Others, however, opine that with their long range, sustainable high speed, endurance, hitting power, and surveillance and command and...
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Sea trials begin for China’s future aircraft carrier
Chinese state media recently confirmed that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLA-N) newest aircraft carrier began undergoing sea trials earlier this week. The future Fujian will be China’s third aircraft carrier after Liaoning and Shandong. However, it is the only one of the three to be...
Maritime Security Vessel News Roundup | September 1 – Patrol vessels for the North Sea and Minnesota, a future US Navy aircraft carrier and more
New patrol boats have been delivered to operators in Denmark and the US. Construction is well underway on the US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier while a German build ..
First steel cut for future US Navy aircraft carrier Doris Miller
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division cut the first steel for the US Navy’s fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier on ..
HII awarded contract for single-phase delivery of aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has received an undefinitised contract award from the US Navy to shift the delivery strategy for the aircraft carrier USS John F. ..