Beijing accuses US of undermining South China Sea peace after plane and helicopter crashes

Beijing criticises US efforts to ‘show off military power’ after a helicopter and fighter from the USS Nimitz crash on the ...
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Justices debate protections for contractors from some suits for mishaps in war zone

Monday’s argument in Hencely v Fluor Corporation revealed a bench broadly skeptical of the idea that military contractors have absolute immunity for negligent mistakes they make when those mistakes ...

Two USS Nimitz aircraft crash within an hour in separate mishaps

Both aircraft were on routine flight operations, the Navy said, when they went down in the South China Sea only 30 minutes ...
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How a Mid-Air Collision Led to One of the Worst Military Accidents in U.S. History

On March 23rd, 1994, two military aircraft collided over Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. What began as a routine ...

Navy loses two aircraft from USS Nimitz aircraft carrier within 30 minutes

The Navy's Pacific Fleet says a fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the ...

Marines say a deployed F-35 stealth fighter squadron clocked nearly 5,000 hours without any mishaps

The five-month deployment marked a win for the F-35 stealth jet, which has seen rising sustainability costs coupled with readiness concerns.

Amid record of accidents in S.China Sea, crashes of two US carrier-borne aircraft expose declining operational capability: Chinese experts

The US Pacific Fleet on Monday confirmed that two of its military aircraft crashed within less than an hour in the South ...