Today there are no drones among the 60 or 70 aircraft – fighters, electronic-warfare planes, radar planes and helicopters – that normally populate a carrier air wing. The goal is for pilotless ...

revolve around the fixed-wing and rotary-wing squadrons that compose its carrier air wing (CVW). The air wing is the backbone and the fist of the CSG. The helicopters, cargo planes, and airborne ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The current drone-centered mission scope is largely surveillance and refueling, as evidenced by a first-of-its-kind MQ-25 Stingray carrier-launched refueler ...

The Stout, another destroyer, remains deployed. More than 1,800 aviators from nine squadrons under Carrier Air Wing Three went home to Naval Air Station Oceana and elsewhere last week. The strike ...

Squadrons assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 flew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) September 9, for carrier qualifications as part of Tailored Ship's Training ...

The embarked carrier air wing provides helicopters for direct support and C4I assets to support them and ensure aid is routed quickly and safely. The 10 nuclear powered Nimitz class aircraft ...

The Gerald R. Ford class is designed to maximize the striking power of the embarked carrier air wing. The ship’s systems and configuration are optimized to maximize the sortie generation rate ...

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived at Norfolk Naval Shipyard on Jan. 8 for a scheduled Planned Incremental Availability ...

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70 ... the process of preparing for deployment and its assigned Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 not yet carrying out its recertification process.