Author: Michael

For decades, the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) was a visible symbol of American maritime power – and while for many years it served as an operational flattop, it later became a news story as the Navy grappled with the difficulty of retiring a ship of this size.

On January 16, 2025, the decommissioned carrier departed the U.S. Navy’s Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia to be towed to Brownsville, Texas, where it will be dismantled. “The ex-John F. Kennedy (CV 67) began its final journey this morning as it departed from the U.S.

The U.S. Air Force has lost at least one E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system (AWACS) and three KC-135 Stratotanker airborne refuelling aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, after the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched multiple ballistic missile and drone attacks on the facility. The strikes on March 27 have caused considerable casualties, with conservative estimated indicating that ten U.S. airmen were wounded, although some estimates have been significantly higher.

The U.S. Air Force has begin its first permanent deployment of F-35A fifth generation fighters to Misawa Air Base in Northern Japan, following in January that the service was preparing to transition the facility to support a permanent presence 48 F-35A fighters to replace 36 aging F-16CJ fourth generation fighters. This will represent the largest concentration of permanently deployed U.S. Air Force fighters in East Asia, with the transition away from the ageing F-16 expected to revolutionise the combat capabilities of the U.S.

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Four weeks after the United States and Israel launched their combined assault on Iran’s clerical regime, the war has reached a tipping point.

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Reuters
Twelve U.S. troops were wounded, ​two of them ‌seriously, in an Iranian military strike on Prince ​Sultan Air Base ​in Saudi Arabia, a ⁠U.S.

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The USS Gerald R. Ford Has Sailed All Over the World And Needs Some Repairs Done 
The Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is the most technologically advanced supercarrier ever put into service in the United States Navy. It was supposed to be the forerunner of the new Ford-class carriers and usher in a new era of Naval dominance.

In its most recent deployment, Ford is indeed breaking some records, though perhaps not the ones that the Navy wants. With her deployment now exceeding 260 days, Ford has joined the Vietnam-era carriers in terms of deployment time, and she is approaching her breaking point.