Ten vessels encompass the U.S. Navy's fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The Kennedy had been out of service for the ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

Analysts with RAND Corp. argue the US Navy needs drone aircraft carriers and envision a whole new strike group to surround ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Russia could build a new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier finally to replace its solitary, unreliable and fire-damaged conventional flattop Admiral Kuznetsov. Russia could do so, but it probably ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

Two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, to be constructed "in the years ahead," will carry the names of former President Bill Clinton and former President George W. Bush, the White House announced ...

China's claims in the South China Sea overlap with those of the Philippines, which is a U.S. security treaty ally.

The following is the Jan. 14, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: ...

China appears to be eyeing a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), a state-owned firm and the largest naval manufacturer in the country, recently ...

The 1,052-foot-long ship, which has been housed at the U.S. Navy’s Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility since 2008, is making ...

The Kennedy namesake will continue with the future Ford-class nuclear-powered supercarrier. The decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy embarked on its final journey to be dismantled ...