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The USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) is the second Gerald R. Ford-class carrier, currently nearing delivery after major delays. As of recently, the Kennedy has completed builder’s sea trials and is expected to be delivered around March 2027.

But amidst the evolving threat environment, could the Kennedy be either the last Ford-class carrier or the last US aircraft carrier ever built? The answer is almost certainly no on both counts.

(April 14, 2017) The aircraft carrier Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) pulls into Naval Station Norfolk for the first time.

Cost overruns, production complications, changing requirements, and substantial design flaws are among the reasons the once-promising Constellation-class Frigate came to an abrupt end. This development opened the door to the now-emerging, vastly different FF(X) endeavor.

Initially intended as a producible, lower-cost, yet high-capability ship with many off-the-shelf, readily obtainable parts and technologies, the Constellation class wound up massively deviating from its initial conceptual vision and devolved into a developmental and financial crisis.

An artist rendering of the U.S.

The Navy has successfully completed the highly-anticipated maiden flight of Boeing’s MQ-25 Stingray, a critical milestone for the service’s effort to field its first aircraft carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle.
The test flight occurred Saturday at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Illinois, where the MQ-25 took off and flew for about two hours while executing various maneuvers and tests, according to a Navy news release.

When A&E was first launched more than 40 years ago, its name was “Arts and Entertainment,” so it makes sense that it teams up with World Wrestling Entertainment to look back at those decades through the lens of sports entertainment—because the WWE is both art and entertaining.
The network is now back with all-new seasons of its WWE hits, “Biography: WWE Legends,” “WWE LFG (Legends and Future Greats),” and “WWE’s Greatest Moments.”
Don’t pretend like you’re not interested.

U.S. Special Operations Command’s acquisition, technology and logistics directorate is looking to partner with members of industry and nonprofit organizations via a new initiative focused on modernizing SOCOM’s maritime and cross-domain capabilities, according to a sources-sought notice published Friday on a government contracting website.

The up-and-coming Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider 6th-generation stealth bomber is not a supersonic warplane; ditto for (1) its immediate predecessor, the pre-merger Northrop B-2 Spirit (the original stealth bomber), and (2) the septuagenarian B-52 “Stratosaurus” (unofficially AKA the “Stratosaurus”).

Indeed, the only member of the US Air Force’s strategic bomber triumvirate that flies in excess of Mach 1 is the B-1B Lancer (aka “the Bone“).

A second B-21 Raider, the nation’s sixth-generation stealth bomber, joins flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Sept.

The United States Air Force and United States Navy will have to keep their current fighter fleets in service longer than anticipated, following new information that their upcoming sixth-generation fighter will not enter service according to previously established timelines.

During comments given as part of the McAleese Defense Programs Conference last month, Representative Rob Wittman, a republican from Virginia, said that the Navy’s F-47 will not be “available” to the Air Force until the mid-2030s. Air and Space Forces Magazine was the first to report on the development.

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In a flagrant display of insubordinate Marxist ideology, the U.S. Air Force Academy terrazzo was overun last Friday with hundreds of females from a USAFA affinity group for women that literally threatened the Secretary of War during the ongoing conflict in Iran.
Apparently up to 500 women showed up for the event which was reportedly sponsored by the Academy and USAFA AOG.

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.

India has demonstrated a new Infantry Fighting Vehicle family known as the Vikram VT21 Advanced Armoured Platform.