The meta-problem with the aircraft carrier is straightforward enough. Every new development in missile technology makes it harder and harder to claim that aircraft carriers are worth the ticket price.

The most advanced but yet-to-be-commissioned Chinese aircraft carrier, CNS Fujian, has been spotted inside a dry dock by satellites after a series of sea trials over the past nine months.

The time has come for the US Navy to field a new type of ship to supplement its supercarriers: Drone flattops. They would be crewed by robots and artificial intelligence, alongside human sailors ...

Analysts with RAND Corp. say it is time for the US Navy to field drone aircraft carriers. These drone carriers disperse combat power at less expense and with less crew. A fleet of drone carriers could ...

Yet, aircraft ... from carriers being less dense than water. While many of the individual components that make up the carrier, such as steel deck plating, are far more dense and would sink on ...

A French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has reached Asia, the NATO member state's military announced on Monday, where it will be dispatched to the Pacific Ocean. The Charles de Gaulle ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final journey to the scrapyard. The decommissioned vessel was the last conventionally powered flattop built by the US Navy. The Kennedy namesake will ...

French aircraft carrier strike group (CSG) led by FNSCharles De Gaulle on a deployment in the Indian Ocean is set to make stopovers at Goa and Kochi in the next few days. The CSG operates Rafale-M ...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden announced on Monday that the nation’s next two aircraft carriers will be named after former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The two carriers ...

The Navy has announced the names for the next two Ford-class aircraft carriers: CVN 82 will be known as the USS William J. Clinton; CVN 83 will be known as the USS George W. Bush. The names ...

President Joe Biden announced that the next two aircraft carriers will be named after former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The vessels will be officially designated the USS William J.