The San Diego-based USS Carl Vinson is in the Mideast and launching airstrikes on Houthi rebels ahead of the next nuclear ...

The U.S. Navy has started the testing of the LRASM anti-ship weapon on the F-35C, with the first captive ... Anti-Surface Warfare (OASuW) air-launch capability gap that will provide flexible ...

The F-35C variant offers a combat radius of 600 nautical ... that means the carrier must sail that much closer to the adversary in order to launch effective sorties, potentially exposing itself ...

The F-35C Lightning II is the U.S. Navy’s first low-observable carrier-based aviation platform. The F-35 is being purchased to replace the F/A-18C/D Hornet as the carrier strike group’s ...

The Navy’s ability to project air power in a contested environment depends on more than the capabilities of its aircraft — it depends on where those aircraft are based. Right now, every operational ...

An F-35C receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker during RIMPAC 2024 exercise Credit: Chief Petty Officer Paul Seeber, DVIDS, https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8527595/f ...

and the carrier-based F-35C Joint Strike Fighter can fly more than 1,200 nautical miles. “That’s a core attribute of the F/A-XX,” Donnelly told reporters. “It will definitely have longer ...

The aircraft is accompanied by an F/A-18 Super Hornet and F-35C Lightning II, both from the carrier. Originally posted on Instagram by user @ryans_warbirds, the video soon attracted attention and ...