China has strengthened its maritime power as the country’s second active aircraft carrier achieved “all-weather” combat capacity last year. Named Shandong, the carrier recently completed its ...
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) acquired 83 aircraft in 2024, of which 30 were owned and 53 were managed. The firm also sold 68 aircraft, including 19 owned and 49 managed in the same time frame.
An F-35C Lightning II from the “Sidewinders” prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Pacific Ocean, July 26, 2024. (U.S. Navy photo by ...
prepares to make an arrested gear landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). [Author’s note: the aircraft is in the “Five Wet” configuration with four 480 gallon ...
From a Chinese perspective, the only important challenge to that dominance comes from U.S.-led air forces: the USAF and the Navy’s aircraft carriers, with allied support from Japan, Korea, Australia ...