Supercarrier Engine Saga: HII And GE Nearing A Resolution On Repair Costs

ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 4, 2020) The Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), front, and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) transit the Atlantic Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Isaac Esposito/Released) By Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) Five years after the US Navy’s costliest warship was crippled by flawed engine gears, prime contractorContinue reading “Supercarrier Engine Saga: HII And GE Nearing A Resolution On Repair Costs”

Air Force and Navy coordinate for Exercise Tasman Shield

A Royal Australian Air Force F-35A Lightning II conducts a flypast over HMAS Sydney during Exercise Tasman Shield 2023. Photo: LSIS Susan Mossop. AIR & SEA LIFT | 05 APRIL 2023 By: Robert Dougherty The Australian Defence Force has conducted simulated air-maritime integrated missions off the east coast of Australia for Exercise Tasman Shield. The RoyalContinue reading “Air Force and Navy coordinate for Exercise Tasman Shield”

Navy: USS Gerald R. Ford Set to Deploy in May, Kennedy Deployment Schedule Unaffected by Delivery Change – By: Sam LaGrone April 4, 2023 5:23 PM

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) transits the Atlantic Ocean on March 19, 2023. US Navy Photo NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – First-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is set to deploy the first week of May following the completion of a series of certification exercises, service officials said on Tuesday. Ford returned on Sunday from its composite training unitContinue reading “Navy: USS Gerald R. Ford Set to Deploy in May, Kennedy Deployment Schedule Unaffected by Delivery Change – By: Sam LaGrone April 4, 2023 5:23 PM”

Chinese navy fleet completes mission of escorting civilian vessels in Gulf of Aden – Photos

Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-03-31 16:10:15     The missile destroyer Huainan bombards the sea during an actual combat training of the 42nd fleet of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy, on Feb. 6, 2023. A Chinese naval fleet returned to east China’s port city of Qingdao in Shandong Province on Thursday after completing its missionContinue reading “Chinese navy fleet completes mission of escorting civilian vessels in Gulf of Aden – Photos”

U.S., South Korea, Japan hold joint naval drills amid North Korean nuclear threat

The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier arrives at a port in Busan, South Korea, on March 28. | KYODO BLOOMBERG Apr 4, 2023 The United States, South Korea and Japan have started joint naval drills off the Korean Peninsula in a move certain to anger North Korea, which fired its first missile over Japan in fiveContinue reading “U.S., South Korea, Japan hold joint naval drills amid North Korean nuclear threat”