Ukraine has battered Russia's Black Sea Fleet with cruise missile strikes and sea drone attacks. To deal with the new sea drone threat, Russia is increasing its maritime air patrol operations. British ...

Ancient peoples battled to master the sea. The earliest warships on record date back to Egyptian civilization. Ancient mariners took to the Nile River in boats constructed of lashed reeds and coated ...

For Robert R. Macon, known to his friends and co-workers as Buddy, the road to a 32-year career as the Deputy Director of the National Naval Aviation Museum began on Guam. The son of a U.S. Air Force ...

The U.S. Navy has a storied history of utilizing some of the most advanced and iconic aircraft in the world. From the early ...

Eugene Ely did not become the godfather of naval aviation without having a high tolerance for fear. During a time in U.S. history when inherent risks were baked into various modes of transportation, ...

The U.S. military has shown off a ‘game-changing’ rocket – based on 1960s tech. A test saw a ramjet missile engine weapon fired from an unmanned aircraft – a development set to allow greater range and ...

On Nov. 14, 1910, Eugene B. Ely became the first aviator to take off from a ship as his Curtiss “Pusher” biplane lifted off the deck of the cruiser USS Birmingham off Hampton Roads, Virginia. The ...

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