Dry Docks: Newport News Shipbuilding operates some of the largest dry docks in the United States, essential for the construction and maintenance of large vessels like aircraft carriers.

Dry Docks: Newport News Shipbuilding operates some of the largest dry docks in the United States, essential for the construction and maintenance of large vessels like aircraft carriers.

So, the age of aircraft carriers was extended for many decades beyond WWII. Today, the average cost for building a nuclear-powered, aircraft carrier—a supercarrier, such as America’s new ...

China has sent another aircraft carrier into the wider western Pacific Ocean following its first operation featuring two "flattop" warships last month, according to a report on Monday. A fighter ...

New generation of navy officers aboard PLA’s first aircraft carrier more confident in using the foreign language to warn off planes and vessels.

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Russia’s lone aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, has been marooned in a lengthy refit, plagued by design flaws, fires, and outdated technology. The carrier, built during the Cold War ...

Those are the USS George Washington aircraft carrier, which completed its midlife overhaul at the Newport News shipyard in 2023 and is en route to its new homeport of Japan. Two recently ...

China appears to have built a new and unusual aircraft carrier, intriguing experts with a potentially first-of-its-kind vessel that could further increase Beijing’s rapidly expanding maritime power.

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This week, China confirmed that it has carried out its first dual aircraft carrier operation, while an American aircraft carrier was conducting exercises in the Western Pacific Ocean. Meanwhile ...