1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (368+ words) The United States Navy's oldest operational nuclear-powered supercarrier paid a port visit to Panama on Saturday, marking the first time a US Navy aircraft carrier visited the small Central American nation in over five decades. Like the other carriers of…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (376+ words) The prototype completed 42 months of flight testing "without incident since its first flight in July 2022," The Aviationist reported, adding that the six test aircraft had further logged around 1,600 sorties. Work on the production airframe began in July 2024 and reached its…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (251+ words) A total of eight warships were built for the JMSDF between 1986 and 1989 at the Ishikawajima'Harima, Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, and Hitachi shipyards. The JMSDF is replacing the aging destroyers with the small but more versatile Mogami-class frigates. Although the JS Asagiri has…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (489+ words) The United States Army is now testing an "extensively modified" variant of the famed Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk medium-lift utility helicopter. The H-60Mx was developed as part of the Army's next-generation "Optimally Piloted Vehicle" (OPV), meaning it is an optionally manned…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (11+ words) Germany's First F-35s Are Nearing Final Assembly'The National Interest...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (317+ words) The EC-2 was converted from the C-2 military transport, an indigenous Japanese twin-jet cargo plane that offered excellent payload capacity, flight performance, and cost efficiency. Powered by two GE CF6 turbofan engines, the C-2 sits between a C-17 Globemaster III and a C-130 Hercules with…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (167+ words) Japan loves submarines'as it should. Why Japan treasures its submarines is straightforward. First, Japan confronts difficult geography. The island republic lives permanently under the shadow of its major nemesis, China. The Japanese archipelago roughly parallels Chinese shorelines. No point along…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (445+ words) The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned its fifth Taigei-class diesel-electric fast attack submarine this week, with the boat officially handed over at a ceremony on Tuesday, March 10, at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries" Kobe Shipyard. The current program of record calls…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (480+ words) The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed on Thursday evening that a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueler had crashed in western Iraq, killing its six crewmembers. Although CENTCOM provided few details on the crash, it stressed that it had not…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (520+ words) On Thursday, a non-combat-related fire broke out on the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the US Navy's newest nuclear-powered supercarrier. It has been contained, but two sailors were reported injured. The sailors are in "stable condition" and their injuries were not…...