TOKYO -- Aircraft carriers from Japan, the U.S. and France are conducting joint drills for the first time off the Philippine ...

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group will carry out the week-long French-hosted exercise Pacific Steller with the French CSG ...

The Maritime Self-Defense Force said Thursday that it has begun the Pacific Steller joint exercise with the U.S. and French ...

The tri-carrier war game in the Philippine Sea comes as seven Chinese warships reached the area earlier this week.

February 3, 2025: In early 2017 Japan put into service a second 27,000 ton destroyer, the Kaga DDH 184 that looks exactly like an aircraft carrier. Actually, it looks like an LPH, an amphibious ship ...

The San Diego-based USS Carl Vinson will join aircraft carriers from France and Japan for a major exercise in the Philippine Sea beginning Saturday, the Navy announced.

The joint U.S.-French-Japanese exercises mark the first time that a French Navy aircraft carrier operated in the Pacific ...

As this reporter argued in an article in The National Interest published on January 23, 2025, the U.S. Navy’s Douglas SBD ...

Lawrence — will operate alongside the FS Charles De Gaulle, and JS Kaga ... and Japanese allies in a multi-domain environment,” said Rear Adm. Michael Wosje, commander of Carrier Strike ...

These changes have given the Kaga the appearance of an aircraft carrier. However, the Japanese government has been careful to avoid calling its modified Izumo-class destroyers aircraft carriers ...

The navies of France, Japan and the United States today began Exercise Pacific Steller 2025, a multi-large deck event (MLDE) ...