Navy investigators found one commanding officer's decision to fire on friendly fighter jets was neither "reasonable" nor "prudent" given the information he had at hand.
The choice of Yulin as its commissioning location strongly suggests the ship will now become part of the PLAN’s South Sea Fleet, whose area of responsibility includes the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait.
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The visuals, published by the official social media channels, showed the Shenyang J-15T, J-35 fighters and Xi’an KJ-600 airborne early warning aircraft being launched from the Fujian’s electromagnetic catapults.
Amid debate over aircraft carriers' vulnerability, analysts told Breaking Defense global interest is strong.
Marine Corps and Air Force leaders have also said they are now relying on other aircraft to fill the gap the V-22 Osprey grounding has left.
The challenges for the Navy to dispose of the former USS Enterprise have driven the service to stand up a new office to deal both with “The Big E” and the pipeline of Nimitz-class carriers to come.
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
Researcher Owen J. Daniels argues that to harness AI, the Pentagon should take a lesson from the Second World War.
The push for a naval version of the jet would likely not have happened if not for a series of decisions that dates back months.
In addition to the speedy construction of the carrier, analysts called attention to the shipyard's foreign customers, who appear to be effectively subsidizing the carrier's construction.
The Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier has withstood three explosions over the course of four months during its full ship shock trials.
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
The focus solely on 2022 was hinted at by an internal memo issued by Deputy Defense Secretary Kath Hicks.
"I can clearly -- in my mind -- envision a way to say ‘fly a defensive combat spread, shoot on this target,’ and I will squeeze the trigger or I will enable that unmanned platform to shoot the designated target," Rear Adm. Gregory Harris says.
"The contradictions and the flaws in this report are so blatant that I think it's a pretty weak reed to lean on...given the fact that [the Trump administration] basically were just doing Obama's shipbuilding plan up until this point," says Rep. Joe Courtney
The new plan will focus on four areas, “underwater, our carrier programs, our Marines -- so working with the US Marine Corps and their drive for distributed warfare -- and linking that with what we want to do with our Royal Marines, and the future commando force,” First Sea Lord Adm. Tony Radakin says.