Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS George Washington, HMS Prince of Wales, JS Kaga and an American amphibious assault ship sail together on Aug. 10, 2025.

For the first time, Royal Navy F-35Bs conducted cross-deck operations with the JS Kaga aircraft carrier. The Royal Navy flagship HMS Prince of Wales, which is at the midway point of the historic ...

The maritime landscape of the Indo-Pacific is undergoing its most profound structural realignment since the conclusion of the Second World War, driven by a sweeping naval modernization program in ...

Aircraft carriers from Japan, the UK and the USA have conducted a major exercise in the Western Pacific, highlighted by the first landing of a UK-operated Lockheed Martin F-35B on a Japanese vessel.

A UK F-35B seen here while it was operating with the JMSDF Izumo-class helicopter carrier JS Kaga . (Royal Navy) A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Izumo-class helicopter carrier has embarked ...

The “cross-deck” exercises with US Marine Corps pilots are intended to prepare the JS Kaga’s crew for when the JMSDF’s own F-35s come online. The deeper story, however, is that Japan is steadily ...