U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) hold safety lines to steady a training drone as it is raised on to the ship’s flight deck Aug. 20, 2020.

The U.S. Navy’s new Ford-class aircraft carriers face five major complaints despite their power. -The first is “brutal ...

The Pentagon announced Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, that the USS Nimitz, the only Navy aircraft carrier operating in the Middle East, will return home to the U.S. West Coast.

Aircraft carriers are the largest warships in the world, and they play an absolutely crucial role in modern naval power.

MILITARY Biden announces names of future aircraft carriers: USS William J Clinton, George W Bush The future Navy carriers will be part of the newest, Ford-class carriers that have more than 20 ...

Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly this week kicked off a Future Carrier 2030 Task Force effort to look at the future of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aviation.

The U.S. Navy is conducting a new panel to examine the future of the aircraft carrier and the kinds of aircraft that fly off it, with implications that the Navy is open to new naval aviation ...

When a future generation of Navy sailors project American airpower across the high seas, they’ll do it on aircraft carriers named for Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WAVY) — President Biden announced Monday that the next two future Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers would be named after former presidents Bill Clinton and ...

Now, when carrier critics ask whether the aircraft carrier has a future, they’re usually referring to U.S. Navy nuclear-powered supercarriers, the eleven behemoths that bear the weight of U.S ...

The push for light carriers tracks with a broader effort to expand the sheer size of the fleet. Many Navy officials are hoping to grow the fleet to upwards of 350 ships, far more than today’s 276.

Submarines Have Their Day. HMS Courageous was the first modern aircraft carrier to fall victim to a submarine.On September 17, 1939, while hunting German U-boats, Courageous was torpedoed and sunk ...