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

A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier displaces approximately 100,000 long tons when fully loaded. Two nuclear reactors pour four steam turbines and four shafts, which produce 260,000 shaft horsepower.

The United States Navy has a tradition of naming many of its popular ships after U.S. presidents. Here are five that stand ...

The US Navy had intended to begin phasing out the half-century-old Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. But delays to the Nimitz’s replacement, the Gerald R. Ford-class, and sustained demand for the ...

America’s Nimitz-class carriers are truly ... visible rust notwithstanding. Some carrier lovers might defend the Nimitz’s age by saying that the United States Air Force’s B-52 Stratofortress ...

The U.S. has the world's largest carrier fleet with 11 in service, while China ranks second with three and Japan has two ...

The Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

A United States Navy F ... Specialist 3rd Class Nate Jordan On Monday, the Nimitz was spotted leaving Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington. The aircraft carrier was underway in the U.S ...

Carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) pulled into Laem Chabang, Thailand, on Monday for a port visit after three weeks of ...

Ford-class aircraft carriers would be named after former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W ... The trend has many exceptions, including the first-in-class USS Nimitz, the USS Carl Vinson, the ...

It will take three years of meeting recruiting goals to recover from the Navy’s current gaps-at sea, a service official said ...

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