DefenceTalkFighter jets from South Korea and the United States intercepted two Russian warplanes after they flew near a US aircraft carrier operating off the Korean peninsula, officials said Thursday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the USS Ronald Reagan — a massive, nuclear-powered supercarrier — was involved in a military exercise with South Korean partners […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russian-warplanes-intercepted-near-us-carrier-off-south-korea-65713/

DefenceTalkATLANTIC OCEAN: Two F-35C Lightning II carrier variants conducted their first arrested landings aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) off the coast of the eastern United States on Oct. 2. U.S. Navy test pilots Cmdr. Tony “Brick” Wilson and LT Chris “TJ” Karapostoles landed F-35C test aircraft 73/CF-03 and 75/CF-05, respectively, aboard USS Eisenhower’s […]https://www.defencetalk.com/f-35c-lands-on-carrier-phase-developmental-test-65555/

DefenceTalkChina is building a modern and regionally powerful navy with a limited but growing capability for conducting operations beyond China’s near-seas region. Observers of Chinese and U.S. military forces view China’s improving naval capabilities as posing a potential challenge in the Western Pacific to the U.S. Navy’s ability to achieve and maintain control of blue-water […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-naval-modernization-implications-for-us-navy-capabilities-3-64983/

DefenceTalkChina has confirmed that it is building a unique aircraft carrier, and that it may even be nuclear-powered. On Thursday, huanqiu.com, the Chinese-language version of local Global Times, published an internal document of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation. The report states that the company’s “priority missions” are to build nuclear submarines and an aircraft carrier. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-building-new-aircraft-carrier-possibly-nuclear-powered-64953/

DefenceTalkFor the first time, the size and specifications of the Indian Navy’s future aircraft carrier have been officially acknowledged. The navy has written to at least four major global shipbuilders, asking for proposals to help in designing a 65,000 tonne carrier that would be about 300 meters long. The letter of request, issued by the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-specifies-65000-tonne-aircraft-carrier-with-catapult-64907/

DefenceTalkUS Navy officials are pinning their hopes on laser and directed-energy weapons, claiming that lasers would even replace some existing missile systems, providing a much higher rate of annihilation. The US Navy is considering the possibility to equip America’s next-generation aircraft carriers with powerful laser weapons, according to US journalist Zachary Keck, who has interned […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-navy-plans-to-equip-next-generation-aircraft-carriers-with-laser-weapons-64629/

DefenceTalkIndia’s new indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC), the INS Vikrant, has been floated out of her building drydock and towed over to a fitting-out quay for the final steps in her construction. She is due to be delivered to the Indian Navy in late 2016. Sea trials will commence in 2017 and last two years before […]https://www.defencetalk.com/indian-navy-floats-out-new-aircraft-carrier-64486/

DefenceTalkThe Marine Corps F-35B operational test (OT-1) successfully concluded aboard a U.S. Navy amphibious ship, USS Wasp (LHD-1), on May 29, 2015. Setting off from Norfolk, Virginia on May 18, USS Wasp cut an arc between 50 and 100 miles off the coast of Virginia and North Carolina, as Marine Corps pilots safely conducted 100 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/marine-corps-proves-f-35bs-capability-at-sea-64424/

DefenceTalkHuntington Ingalls Industries (HII) received a $3.35 billion contract award for the detail design and construction of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), the second ship in the Gerald R. Ford class of carriers. The work will be performed at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division. The company also received a $941 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/hii-awarded-contract-for-design-of-aircraft-carrier-cvn-79-64419/

DefenceTalkA new helicopter-borne surveillance system has been chosen to protect the Royal Navy’s future Queen Elizabeth Class carriers. The MOD and Lockheed Martin UK, as the prime contractor for Crowsnest, have selected Thales as the chosen bidder to provide the radar and mission system at the heart of the Crowsnest capability. The Crowsnest project will […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-surveillance-system-for-future-royal-navy-aircraft-carriers-revealed-64272/