USS Enterprise Begins Final Overseas Deployment
USS Enterprise (CVN 65), the U.S. Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier – and at 51 years of age, its longest …
Naval Aviation
Wingman to the End: Lt. j.g. Thomas Hudner, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, and the Medal of Honor
Thomas Hudner had no idea how things were going to unfold on Dec. 4, 1950. As a carrier-based U.S. Navy …
Navy Rescues 13 Iranian Sailors from Somali Pirates
The head of Iran’s military said that Iranian ships had “chased” a U.S. aircraft carrier from the Persian Gulf, and …
The Year’s Best Military Photos
Throughout 2011 we posted weekly slide shows of favorite military photos we’d come across in putting together our various publications …
The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Stays On-Track
A decade into the effort to renew and enhance the U.S. Navy’s critical airborne battle management command and control platform, …
The Blue Angels: A 65 Year History
At the end of World War II, the Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, ordered the formation …
Challenge in Transition
Of all the presentations at the 2011 Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition in Washington, D.C., perhaps the most interesting was the …
Responsive, Relevant, Rotary-wing
Eighty years ago, the U.S. Navy bought three XOP-1 autogyros for testing. After three historic landings on the carrier Langley …
On the Sea of Stars
When President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched America’s campaign in the space race, he had several reasons for insisting the nation’s …
Marine Cobras in Iraq: Naval Aviation Through the Decades
Entering a new century, the U.S. naval aviation weathered 9/11, fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reduced its carrier force (to …