South Korean Ship Helps Land Aircraft On U.S. Carrier

The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis used the South Korean destroyer Gang Gam-chan to land aircraft recently during Exercise Foal Eagle in the waters surrounding the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. Navy says. The destroyer operated as the horizon reference unit (HRU), the Navy says. On especially...

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