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With a boom and sparks, this $60 million Navy jet's aircraft carrier landing unraveled in seconds
A critical system failed as a Super Hornet fighter jet was landing on USS Harry S. Truman. The jet slid off the deck into the Red Sea.
The U.S. Navy said it recovered an F/A-18F Super Hornet and a MH-60R Seahawk lost from USS Nimitz in two separate incidents in the South China Sea back in October. The incidents remain under investigation while retrieved aircraft parts are being moved to a specified U.S. military facility in the Indo-Pacific for thorough examination, the Navy said.
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How the Navy’s top aircraft achieve missions no other force can
The U.S. Navy operates some of the most advanced aircraft ever engineered - machines designed for stealth, speed, and absolute dominance. In this video, we break down the top 5 jets and aircraft that define America’s modern air power.
The Navy is moving forward with an environmental impact statement as it considers home-basing F-35C Joint Strike Fighter aircraft at Naval Air Station Oceana.
The fighter jets were lost due to malfunction, a friendly fire shoot-down, and a defensive evasive maneuver, according to the Navy's investigation. The aircraft carrier itself also collided with a merchant ship during the same deployment, part of a military campaign against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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Five minutes of chaos: How the Navy shot down its own jet
A long pattern of rushed training and failed equipment contributed to the embarrassing and costly error, a recently published command investigation found.
Air traffic recordings reveal a JetBlue pilot’s alarm after a close encounter with a U.S. Air Force plane in Caribbean airspace near Venezuela.
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Why are all modern fighter jets “multirole” aircraft?
As fighter jets have grown more and more expensive, pressure has mounted on modern air forces to enable those aircraft to carry out multiple distinct missions.
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US Navy recovers helicopter, jet that crashed in South China Sea
The service on Friday salvaged an F/A-18F Super Hornet and MH-60R Seahawk helicopter that crashed in the South China Sea on Oct. 26.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Australia urged calm on Sunday after Chinese military aircraft locked radar on Japanese fighter jets, a month after the Japanese leader’s recent remarks on Taiwan that stirred tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
We almost had a midair collision up here,’ the JetBlue pilot said. ‘They don’t have their transponder turned on, it’s outrageous’