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Where are America’s aircraft carriers now?

Although the US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, only around half are deployed at any given ...
Russia’s Boeing and Airbus passenger planes are kept in the air with equipment and spare parts that move via an under-the-radar network passing through India, Turkey, the UAE and Kazakhstan, among ...
All 178 staff are being made redundant ...
From Venezuela to Iran, the USS Gerald R Ford played an outsized part in projecting US sea and air power across the world. After 326 days at sea, the world’s largest and most expensive aircraft ...
A wave of collapses has struck the aviation sector amid economic pressures and the conflict in the Middle East.
MEA, which has a fleet of around 20 planes operating in the Middle East, Europe and West Africa, has been praised at home for ...
By Allison Lampert June 3 (Reuters) - Lebanon's aviation regulator has carried out a safety audit of Middle East Airlines as ...
The HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier is stuck in Norway after mechanical problems became apparent during a series of NATO exercises.
The United States Navy’s USS Nimitz will arrive in Jamaica on Monday, the final overseas port call during the warship’s ...
Rendering of the third ship in the Ford class of aircraft carriers, Enterprise (CVN-80). HII concept art One of the Navy’s Ford-class aircraft carriers is delayed by two years, stretching the schedule ...
The Gerald R. Ford-class USS John F. Kennedy, which faced its own series of delays, undergoes construction at Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding, Virginia, on July 10, 2019. (Matt ...
When USS Gerald R. Ford returned to Norfolk on Saturday, her deployment lasted more than 300 days. That could be the new normal for carrier missions.