US Navy

The US Navy has released a video of a “full ship crash test” of the USS Gerald R Ford, one of the world’s largest and newest aircraft carriers. The crash test involved detonating just under 20 tons of explosives a few meters from the ship sailing off the east coast …

The USS Gerald R. Ford completed the first full-ship crash test explosive event on Friday. The Navy detonated explosives near the aircraft carrier to see how it withstands shock and vibration. The standard test is designed to simulate real combat conditions. See more stories on the Insider business page. The …

DENVER – Damage Controlman 1st Class Casey Dean was born and raised in Salt Lake City. It was there that he and his two best friends decided to embark on a life-changing journey in the United States Navy. “My friends and I made a pact to join the Navy,” Dean …

TAIPEI – A wave of US and Chinese military activity in the contested South China Sea makes it difficult for the Philippines, at the heart of the maritime dispute, to stick to the neutral foreign policy they have articulated over the past five years years, analysts say. The US Navy’s …

JAPANESE SEA – USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) concludes a five-day multi-area maritime presence operation in the Sea of ​​Japan, June 11-15. The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer regularly operates in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of ​​operations, maintaining the readiness, flexibility and agility necessary to respond to changes in …

Americas Leonardo Helicopters delivered the keys to the US Navy’s first operational TH-73A helicopter at its AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corporation (Leonardo) plant in Philadelphia on June 10. Vice Admiral Kenneth Whitesell, Commander, Naval Air Forces, accepts keys accepted keys on behalf of Navy from Bill Hunt, CEO of Leonardo Helicopters. The …

June 14, 2021 through Gareth Jennings UK to sell one of its soon-to-retire Boeing E-3D Sentry Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW & C) to the US Navy (USN) as a substitute trainer for the Boeing E-6B Mercury long endurance. command, control and communications aircraft (C3). With the UK …

The Navy complied with the rule, he said, requiring sailors to keep their living quarters and their ship-shaped and square-shaped appearance. “It was the old school,” Loomis said. For someone who grew up spending time in a nationally renowned restaurant, Navy food was sometimes hard to digest. “I used to …

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) is conducting routine operations in the Taiwan Strait on May 18, 2021. After the Wilbur and the Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Ballarat conducted operations in the South China Sea in early June, China said Friday (June 11) that the …

At least 8 of the 49 swimmers who qualified to advance from Wave I of the US Olympic Swimming Trials to Wave II will not compete in the second competition in Omaha. Among the 9 was one of the best wave stories I’ve encountered: a pair of men from the …