Airborne- and surface-based fleet air defense elements, such as F/A-18s and at least two guided-missile destroyers safeguarded the US Navy flattop…
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USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier First Deployment could Slip to 2024
by Dario LeoneThe developmental delays in the new technologies that are included aboard the first-in-class nuclear aircraft carrier have continued to slip Ford’s…
- Aircraft CarriersU.S. Navy
US Navy CSG kicks off Overseas Deployment Without its Broken-Down Aircraft Carrier
by Dario LeoneThe ongoing maintenance backlog in the East Coast’s aircraft carrier fleet leaves the Navy with no ready aircraft carrier available to…
- Aircraft CarriersU.S. Navy
USN to retire USS Harry S. Truman, Cutting Aircraft Carrier Fleet from 11 today to 10
by Dario Leone“A 10-carrier, nine Carrier Air Wing force sounds about right to me,” Robert Work, former deputy defense secretary Breaking Defense says…
