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What Was The First Aircraft Carrier With The Game-Changing Full Flat Landing Deck?
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 ...
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First Aircraft Carrier Landing of Unmanned Drone
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.
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Ford-Class: Why This Might be the U.S. Navy's Last Aircraft Carrier
The Ford-class features significant advancements like electromagnetic catapults and advanced arrested landing systems. -However, questions about the future viability of aircraft carriers in light ...
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Satellite Image Captures China's Newest Aircraft Carrier
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 ...
US aircraft carrier collides with ship in Mediterranean Sea
The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman collided with a large merchant vessel Wednesday night in the vicinity of Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier
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 ...
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Turkey And Iran Are Commissioning Unique Drone Carriers
(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 ...