Discover the untold story of Soviet flying aircraft carriers, a groundbreaking WWII innovation! Designed to unleash swarms of fighters and bombers, these airborne juggernauts aimed to rewrite the ...

As this reporter argued in an article in The National Interest published on January 23, 2025, the U.S. Navy’s Douglas SBD ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...

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

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final journey to the scrapyard ... The name honored the president slain five years before, who had served as a naval officer during World War II.

In the latest of a series on Chinese weapon systems, Seong Hyeon Choi investigates the role of its aircraft carriers. China’s third and most advanced aircraft carrier the Fujian represents the ...

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 ...

You can get in touch with Ryan by emailing r.chan@newsweek.com. A U.S. aircraft carrier continued to patrol the South China Sea this week, while the most advanced but yet-to-be-commissioned ...

The Best: During World War II, the United States Navy commissioned 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers, making it the most numerous class of capital warships of the 20th century. These carriers ...

According to the French Embassy in Indonesia, the Charles de Gaulle-led carrier strike group reached two islands in Indonesia, Lombok and Bali, on Tuesday. The French aircraft carrier itself ...