DefenceTalkTAIPEI, Taiwan: China’s navy just learned from a monthlong aircraft carrier training mission how to keep troops safe from COVID-19 and what it would be like to spar with Japan or Taiwan, analysts believe. The Liaoning aircraft carrier returned to port in eastern China April 30 after passing through western Pacific waters near Taiwan and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/two-advances-for-chinese-navy-after-monthlong-aircraft-carrier-voyage-near-japan-taiwan-75400/

DefenceTalkThe new US Navy secretary announced a deeper investigation Wednesday into the crippling outbreak of coronavirus on a nuclear powered aircraft carrier that cost the job of the ship’s captain and the previous Navy chief. Acting Navy Secretary James McPherson said he still had questions about the case after last week’s preliminary report to Secretary […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-extends-probe-into-virus-hit-aircraft-carrier-75328/

DefenceTalkNaval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) Enterprise efficiently and effectively completed a major upgrade and installed a new baseline of the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) in record time, April 1, on USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) while forward deployed in Japan. The CANES program is the Navy’s next generation tactical afloat network. CANES […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-installs-next-gen-network-on-uss-ronald-reagan-75212/

DefenceTalkApril 13th, 2020 marked the first death of an active-duty U.S. Navy servicemember due to the COVID-19 infection. Said U.S. Sailor was one of the 585 USS Theodore Roosevelt crewmembers who tested positive for the coronavirus. He tested positive for the infection on March 20th, evacuated ashore into his quarantine room where he was found […]https://www.defencetalk.com/tragedy-befalls-uss-theodore-roosevelt-75137/

DefenceTalkFrance on Sunday began an unprecedented operation to isolate 1,900 sailors after 50 naval personnel tested positive for COVID-19 aboard its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles-de-Gaulle. The flagship of the French navy docked in the southern port of Toulon, after cutting short its current mission in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic by 10 days because of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/france-to-isolate-1900-sailors-after-virus-hit-naval-ship-docks-75130/

DefenceTalk550 out of the 4,865 Sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier (hull number CVN-71) have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus infection as of April 11th, 2020. Thus far, 93% of the carrier’s crew have been tested for the coronavirus – 3,673 of which returned negative results. Just under 3,700 Sailors have disembarked […]https://www.defencetalk.com/550-sailors-tested-positive-on-uss-theodore-roosevelt-75124/

DefenceTalkThe French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle has registered 50 cases of novel coronavirus among the crew, the armed forces ministry said on Friday. Three sailors had been evacuated from the vessel to hospital in the Mediterranean port of Toulon as a “precaution”. However, none of the crew who tested positive for Covid-19 and remained […]https://www.defencetalk.com/50-covid-19-cases-aboard-french-aircraft-carrier-75120/

DefenceTalkUSS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) recently completed testing of vital combat systems while underway in the Atlantic Ocean. These tests, conducted during Ford’s post-delivery test and trials (PDT&T) phase, are designed to stress the ship’s combat system capabilities and demonstrate the successful integration of new technologies, which the crew employs to defend the aircraft […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-tests-uss-gerald-r-ford-combat-systems-75109/

DefenceTalkFrance’s aircraft carrier will be brought home early from a deployment in the Atlantic after some crew members showed coronavirus symptoms, the defence ministry said Wednesday. About 40 sailors on the Charles de Gaulle are under medical observation, it said in a statement, and those with symptoms have been placed in isolation. None have shown […]https://www.defencetalk.com/french-aircraft-carrier-heads-home-over-virus-fears-75106/

DefenceTalkUnited States Acting Secretary of the Navy (SecNav) Thomas B. Modly resigned from office on the morning of April 7th, 2020, after his mishandling of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (abbreviated TR) aircraft carrier situation led to mass outrage from active-duty Sailors, former Navy officers, Members of Congress and the public alike. On Monday, Acting SecNav […]https://www.defencetalk.com/troubled-waters-75087/