This is why aircraft carriers have JBD (Jet Blast Deflectors). The videos below show an incident that occurred aboard USS Independence (CV-62) in 1995. On Apr. 18, 1995 a VF-21 F-14 Tomcat was blown ...
The US Navy’s history is replete with tales of mighty ships that have shaped the course of naval warfare. However, some of these ships, despite their significant impact, met an untimely end, being ...
The Kitty Hawk carriers were designed as an incremental improvement over the preceding Forrestral-class carriers. The Forrestal-class was comprised of four boats: Forrestral (CV-59); Saratoga (CV-60); ...