With a thunderous bang, a Navy F/A-18 slammed onto the deck of the USS Carl Vinson on Feb. 16, snagging a steel wire with its ...

The result was a landing speed just above 50 knots—remarkably slow for any aircraft—and ... test the U-2 from a carrier. In August 1963, in the dead of night, under the cover of darkness ...

Despite being far smaller than China’s carriers, the Italian vessel is outfitted with a ski jump deck, and can operate with sixteen short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft or ...

MOSCOW, December 5. /TASS/. Russia’s Sukhoi-33 fighter jet crashed in the Mediterranean while landing on The Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement ...