navy

This Korean War hero broke the color barrier, paving the way for Black aviators for years to come.

The U.S. Navy has launched a salvage operation in the South China Sea in an attempt to retrieve a F-35C that went down into the South China Sea during a “landing mishap” earlier this week.

An investigation has been launched into the incident that injured seven sailors on board the USS Carl Vinson.

The U.S. Navy’s fighter attack fleet availability ‘fell considerably more’ than that of the Air Force, according to the government report.

The U.S. Navy has selected newly minted naval aviator Lt. j.g. Suzelle Thomas to train for the F-35C Lightning II, marking the first time a woman has gone from earning her “Wings of Gold” to postgraduate flight training in the single-seat fighter aircraft, according to the service. Thomas’ selection was announced after the Birmingham, Alabama, […]

Naval flight mishaps are on the rise, more than double what they were two years ago, according to the Naval Safety Center (NSC). So far this year, there have been a dozen Class-A flight mishaps of crewed aircraft, up from five reported in fiscal 2019, according to the most recent batch of NSC data. In […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $750,000 research contract to Exosonic for a supersonic uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) demonstrator, the aerospace company announced Wednesday. The technology will be the first purpose-built supersonic UAV developed to aid the Air Force in training pilots, at a time when the service faces challenges stemming from pilot shortages, […]

The remains of five sailors who died when their MH-60S Seahawk crashed into the ocean in late August have been recovered, the U.S. Navy announced Tuesday. The MH-60S Seahawk, which was aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, crashed into ocean waters while conducting a routine flight operation about 60 nautical miles off the coast of San […]

The U.S. Navy has received its first new-production Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet for testing, Naval Air Systems Command announced this week. The upgraded Navy fighter aircraft is the first of 78 Boeing-built Block III Super Hornets set to be delivered through the mid-2030s. Among the features included in the jet is an advanced cockpit […]

An investigation is underway after a military training flight crash in a north Texas neighborhood Sunday that left two pilots injured—one severely—and multiple homes damaged, according to military officials. The crash prompted a command-wide safety stand down of the Navy T-45C Goshawk jet trainer aircraft amid the military probe into the cause of the crash. […]