Joshua Stewart, Staff Writer They’re old, gray and approaching retirement — but the Marine Corps’ EA-6B Prowlers are still fighting terrorists. The service’s aging fleet of jets used for electronic … More »
By Dianna Cahn The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK A year after two Navy aircraft crashes in the same week off the coast of Virginia Beach – one killing three sailors – a … More »
By Jeff Schogol, Staff Writer The aircraft carrier George Washington has not been attacked, and World War III has not begun, despite what tweets from United Press International say, the … More »
By Ed Friedrich Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, Wash. BREMERTON, Wash. (Tribune News Service) — Despite the Navy already selling USS Ranger to a dismantling company, a new, well-funded group has emerged … More »
By Mike Hixenbaugh The Virginian-Pilot Several thousand feet above the Atlantic Ocean, a year ago today: Two Navy fighter jets banked toward each other at more than 400 mph. The roaring … More »
By Meghann Myers The decommissioned supercarrier Ranger is headed to the scrapyard unless a Southern California organization can convince the Navy to spare it in the next few weeks. Ranger, … More »
BREMERTON, Wash. — The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS John Stennis has left Puget Sound for a training mission after a $240 million overhaul. The Stennis is 1,092 feet long with … More »
By Richard White The Navy will buy V-22 Osprey tiltrotors to replace its aging C-2A Greyhound turboprop aircraft in flying carrier on board delivery (COD) missions. Breaking Defense obtained a … More »