Category: USS Harry S. Truman

US Navy Recovers Jet Blown Off the Deck of Aircraft Carrier Into Mediterranean Sea

The U.S. Navy announced Monday that it recovered an F/A-18E Super Hornet jet from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea after it was blown overboard from the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier in sudden heavy weather on July 8. A task force recovered the aircraft from a depth of around 9,500 feet using a CURV-21…


NATO Takes Control of US Aircraft Carrier for First Time Since Cold War

NATO took control of a U.S. aircraft carrier group this week as part of a preplanned military exercise—for the first time since the Cold War. “Allied ships from the NATO Naval Striking and Support Forces Command and the U.S. Sixth Fleet initiated a series of patrolling activities across the Mediterranean Sea, within the framework of…