Navy F-35C pilot gears up for testing on carrier Ike October 6, 2015
By Lance M. Bacon, Staff writer Do you want to know what it is like to fly the Navy’s F-35C joint strike fighter? Well, that’s too bad, because “there are … More
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China’s 3,000-Acre Aircraft Carriers Could Change the Balance of Power in the Pacific October 5, 2015
That’s why the United States needs to act now. BY JAMES STAVRIDIS The Great Wall, as President Richard Nixon so elegantly said on his first trip to Beijing in 1972, … More
Why John McCain called this $13 billion aircraft carrier a “spectacular” debacle October 2, 2015
By Christian Davenport Thousands of people view the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford as it is christened at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia on November 9, 2013. (Joe Fudge/Newport … More
Will: Are aircraft carriers worth the cost? October 1, 2015
By George Will The Washington Post THE NAVY’S operations, on which the sun never sets, are the nation’s nerve endings, connecting it with the turbulent world. Although the next president … More
THE PRO-CARRIER ARGUMENT THE NAVY CANNOT MAKE September 28, 2015
BRYAN MCGRATH The U.S. Navy is deterred from making a more robust argument for the utility of the aircraft carrier by charges of stoking inter-service rivalry and antagonizing China. This … More
China’s Copycat Jet Raises Questions About F-35 September 24, 2015
Marcus Weisgerber Did the Chinese theft of data on the US fighter jet and other weapons shrink the Pentagon’s technical superiority? New technical specs about China’s new J-31 fighter, a … More
US officials: F-35 will outmatch any aircraft in development September 23, 2015
BY: JAMES DREW The Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer sees no aircraft in development anywhere today that would be “seriously competitive” against the Lockheed Martin F-35 in combat. The fifth-generation multirole … More
Pentagon weapons tester calls F-35 evaluation into question September 15, 2015
By Christian Davenport A Marine F-35B Joint Strike Fighter lifts off from the runway during the first short take-off and vertical landing mission at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., on … More