A new fighter jet has been added to this year's Columbus Air Show (CAS). The CAS announced that the U.S. Navy F-35C Lightning II Demo Team will join the list of scheduled performers at the air show that will take place Friday, Aug. 22 through Sunday, Aug. 24 at Rickenbacker International Airport, 2241 John Circle Drive. The F-35C will join the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and U.S. Air Force F-16 Viper Demo Team. CAS also added U.S. Navy Legacy Flight to the summer's show, which will feature F-35 and an...

The US Navy has stripped the captain of its "supercarrier" USS Harry S Truman after it crashed into a ship near Egypt last week admitting it had "a loss of confidence in his ability.” Captain Dave Snowden was captain of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier when it was involved in a collision at sea with a merchant vessel near Port Said, Egypt last Wednesday. It did not result in flooding or injuries aboard the carrier, and there was no damage to the ship’s propulsion systems, the US Navy said. However, Snowden...

The U.S. Navy, occasionally accompanied by ships from allied countries, transits the strait about once a month. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, says the strategic waterway belongs to it. The U.S. Navy said the vessels were the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson and Pathfinder-class survey ship, USNS Bowditch. The ships carried out a north-to-south transit February 10-12, it said.

Days after a US Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft carried out a signals intelligence (SIGINT) operation over cartel-controlled areas in Baja California, the US Navy's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz (CVN 68), was spotted off Mexico's northern coast on Wednesday afternoon. According to Bloomberg ship tracking data, the USS Nimitz is transiting international waters off the coast of Punta Colonet, located in the northern section of Baja California. The vessel is currently underway at a speed of 8.8 knots. The USS Nimitz has no scheduled port calls,...

A jaw-dropping new photo shows the US Navy firing off a drone-destroying laser weapon — dubbed “Helios” — from one of its warship. The undated image, which was published in the US Center for Countermeasures’ annual report this month, captured the warfighting laser technology being shot from the USS Preble destroyer in the middle of the ocean. The demo was “to verify and validate the functionality, performance, and capability of the HEL with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance system against an unmanned aerial vehicle target,” the report stated. The report...

American service personnel have been told that relying on the Chinese-developed AI model raises security and ethical concerns The US Navy has barred its sailors from using the artificial intelligence model from the Chinese company DeepSeek, CNBC reported on Tuesday. In an email sent to service personnel on Friday, the Navy warned that DeepSeek’s R1 model had been forbidden “for any work-related tasks or personal use.” The Chinese AI should be avoided because of the “potential security and ethical concerns associated with the model’s origin and usage,” the message explained....

EXCLUSIVE: On the same night a U.S. Navy fighter jet was shot down over the Red Sea, a second jet nearly suffered the same fate. An F/A-18 Super Hornet — flying a few miles behind the Hornet that was shot down — was forced to take evasive maneuvers after a second surface-to-air missile was fired from the cruiser USS Gettysburg, narrowly missing the second jet by 100 feet while preparing to land aboard the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, a source with knowledge of the incident tells Fox News. A...