The Pentagon’s efforts to improve U.S. force posture in the Pacific have yielded a flurry of major agreements, with allies motivated by China's behavior.
Britain and Australia fear that their nuclear-submarine and technology pact with the United States could be hindered by Washington's export bureaucracy.
On January 18, 1911, Eugene Ely landed the Curtiss biplane on a deck erected on the cruiser Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay. He was aided by a tailhook — the first ever — and arrestor cables attached to sandbags.
The birth of naval aviation: From a 75-hp V-8 engine capable of pushing an aircraft to a maximum speed of 60 mph to F/A-18s boasting twin turbofans max out at nearly 1,200 mph.