The Coast Guard acquired a lot of its aircraft as transfers from the Air Force or the Navy. Nearly all of the aircraft that were transferred to the Coast Guard from the US Navy or from the US Air Force served with the Coast Guard under their original serial numbers, not being allocated ...
The US Coast Guard (USCG) awarded the Integrated Coast Guard Systems (ICGS) team of Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin a contract worth up to $17 billion over the next 30 years to modernize and rebuild...
the industry has been building improved models of existing aircraft for more than three decades. The army's vision would swiftly break with that tradition. Four new aircraft types superior in every way to the existing fleet would enter service...
(MSC). National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF). US Merchant Marine Academy. Video - Aircraft Carrier Landing. The above link is to some video footage of an A-6 approaching an aircraft carrier and landing. It was taken from the cockpit by the co-pilot. If you can't imagine landing on a...
Navy’s forward-deployed fleets, the Seventh Fleet, headquartered in Japan, operates as many as 70 ships, has around 150 aircraft and more than 27,000 sailors. It operates over an area of 124 million square km (48 million square miles) from bases in Japan, South Korea and Singapore. ...
The Philippine Air Force said Wednesday its aircraft had taken part in joint patrols the day before in the vicinity of Batanes, the northernmost province of the Philippines, which is only about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Taiwan, a self-governed island that China claims as its own....
s Fleet Week, October 13, 2019. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jordan Akiyama)The fishing vessel, Miss Amy J after a boat collision, Oct. 15, 2019, 35 miles northwest of Dry Tortugas, Florida. (Coast Guard Ph...
“I am pleased to announce that Seattle, Washington will be the home of the Coast Guard’s new Polar Security Cutters,” saidAdmiral Karl L. Schultz, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. “The Pacific Northwest has been the home of our icebreaking fleet since 1976, and I am confid...
The cutter's namesake comes from Cmdr. Elmer "Archie" Fowler Stone, who in 1917 became the Coast Guard's first aviator and, two years later, was the pilot of the NC-4, a Navy airplane, which in 1919 was the first aircraft to accomplish a trans-Atlantic flight, landing in Portugal. ...
Beijing made the claim after the US accused China of operating a fleet of surveillance balloons around the world. US officials denied the claim and said there is "no US surveillance or aircraft in Chinese airspace." The development comes a day afterUS jets shot down a ...