U.S. Yorktown Class Arguably the most successful class of warship ever built, and certainly one of the most decorated, the Yorktowns were the model for all future U.S. carrier designs. Relatively ...

Confident that the American carriers were nowhere in the vicinity, Nagumo ordered the 93 fueled and armed aircraft to be rearmed for another go at Midway. Fifteen minutes into this operation, a ...

beginning with the USS Midway. The George Washington was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be stationed in Yokosuka when it first arrived 16 years ago. The carrier replacement ...

The decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy embarked on ... who had served as a naval officer during World War II. After his motor torpedo boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer ...

When Russia’s Oreshnik missile delivered its multiple payloads to Ukraine’s PA Pivdenmash plant in Dnipro, the guardian angels of aircraft carriers around the world wept. While some defenders ...

Summary and Key Points: The Midway-class aircraft carriers, including the USS Midway, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, and USS Coral Sea, represent the pinnacle of U.S. naval engineering from World War ...

The ex-aircraft ... Hawk, USS Constellation, USS America, and the Kennedy, the vessels were the last group of carriers to be powered by fossil fuels, which were replaced by the Navy's Nimitz-class ...

The aircraft is still in the development phase and will have to be able to handle ski-jump and electromagnetic catapult systems, analyst says.

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 ...