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World Naval Developments - The Perils of Russian Shipbuilding
Magazine ArticleProceedings Magazine - August 2013 Vol. 139/8/1,326Russian-built carrier, the Vikramaditya . The ship, which began life as the Soviet carrier Admiral Gorshkov ... at the time. The Russians were desperate. In return for an order for carrier-capable aircraft, they offered the carrier gratis. The Indians were to pay only for the cost of modernization. As a Soviet vessel, ...
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Nobody Asked Me, But. . . - We Need to Rethink Carrier-Support Aircraft
Magazine ArticleProceedings Magazine - September 2013 Vol. 139/9/1,327The Navy needs to take a fresh look at its carrier-support aircraft—both the tankers used for in-flight refueling and the C-2A carrier onboard delivery (COD) plane that carries people and equipment to and from aircraft carriers when the ships are under way. It’s not just the age and capabilities ...
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World Naval Developments - Man vs. Machine
Magazine ArticleProceedings Magazine - July 2013 Vol. 139/7/1,325a carrier. Assuming the carrier landing is successful, the X-47B will be a candidate for the role of carrier-based unmanned attack and reconnaissance. Although not as fast as an F/A-18 or the F-35 Joint ... of the X-47B raises an interesting question. It can, apparently, operate from a carrier and carry out missions ...
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Some Aspects of Carrier and Cruiser Design
Magazine ArticleProceedings Magazine - November 1930 Vol. 56/11/333
combatant types. Even aircraft carriers have been chosen for considerations other than their fitness ... designed carrier, the Hermes. Japan has three converted hulls carrying aircraft and France, one. ... in a fleet action whether its armament be airplanes, guns, or both. Carrier operations as at present ...
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Drones to the Rescue!
Magazine ArticleProceedings Magazine - September 2013 Vol. 139/9/1,327of the Navy’s aircraft carriers, but the prospective addition of unmanned aerial vehicles to the flattop’s ... became the first drone to land on an aircraft carrier in July, Navy officials properly hailed the event ... it also injected a new element into the recently revived strategic debate over how many aircraft carriers ...
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Carrier Crisis
Magazine ArticleProceedings Magazine - March 1943 Vol. 69/3/481
objective. This realization led to the development of the aircraft carrier. However, even after the carrier ... recently laid on aircraft carriers. The announced program of 500,000 tons of new carrier construction, plus the conversion of other naval and merchant types to carriers, will enable us, it is hoped, to provide our primary ...
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The Rise of the Missile Carriers
Magazine ArticleProceedings Magazine - May 2013 Vol. 139/5/1,323Autonomous attack systems may be heralding the twilight of the aircraft-carrier era, ... the way we fight. Just as technology caused the battleship to be eclipsed by the aircraft carrier, soon the aircraft carrier will be eclipsed by the missile carrier. This is not to say the aircraft carrier ...
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U.S. Navy - Bye Bye, ‘Big E’
Magazine ArticleProceedings Magazine - February 2013 Vol. 139/2/1,320The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) began inactivation at Norfolk, Virginia, on 1 ... announced that the planned carrier CVN-80 would be named Enterprise . His widely acclaimed statement ... World War I; and the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CV-6), built at Newport News, Virginia, ...
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Now Hear This - Our Carriers Need a Berth at Guam
Magazine ArticleProceedings Magazine - April 2014 Vol. 140/4/1,334construction of a carrier-capable berth in Guam” in favor of “more disciplined use of resources.” In reality, ... including 6 of 11 aircraft carriers, in the Pacific. Yet today the supporting infrastructure is not in place. Fortunately, building the carrier-capable berth is not a complicated engineering feat. As recently ...
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A New Kind of Carrier Air Wing
Magazine ArticleProceedings Magazine - September 2012 Vol. 138/9/1,315
Goure, Daniel - 2012, 138-9-1315.pdf Proceedings Magazine - September 2012 Vol. 138/9/1,315 ...
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