The crude wooden platform also proved insufficient for a perfect takeoff or landing ... U.S. Navy tested how a catapult system could work on its aircraft carriers. In 1915, three years before ...

The new Electric Launch System for Unmanned Aircraft allows UAS operations ... ending with a landing back onto the carrier without using any form of arrestor gear. The activity of the Gray Eagle ...

The Navy's X-47B completes the first-ever aircraft carrier landing of an unmanned drone on the USS George H.W. Bush. Video by WSJ's Julian E. Barnes via #WorldStream.

A touch-and-go landing involves the landing and immediate takeoff of an aircraft from a flight deck. China's first aircraft carrier, the Soviet-built Liaoning, was commissioned in 2012 after ...

The integration of SIRTAP of the Juan Carlos I will focus on command and control, combat system integration and navigation ...

The Nimitz Class aircraft carrier continues to be the centerpiece of the forces necessary for operating forward. In times of crisis, the first question leaders ask in a crisis is: “Where are the ...

(Photo by Murat Kula/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) The Anadolu is a landing helicopter dock rather than a full-fledged aircraft carrier ... 400 air defense missile system it bought from ...