The meta-problem with the aircraft carrier is straightforward enough. Every new development in missile technology makes it harder and harder to claim that aircraft carriers are worth the ticket price.

The time has come for the US Navy to field a new type of ship to supplement its supercarriers: Drone flattops. They would be crewed by robots and artificial intelligence, alongside human sailors ...

The most advanced but yet-to-be-commissioned Chinese aircraft carrier, CNS Fujian, has been spotted inside a dry dock by satellites after a series of sea trials over the past nine months.

A United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier continued to patrol the South China Sea this week, following a bilateral naval exercise with Washington's ally the Philippines. USS Carl Vinson ...

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With its planned retirement, one feat remains out of reach for the Raptor: landing and taking off from an aircraft carrier. We will never see a Raptor land on an aircraft carrier for two reasons. The ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F ... the vessels were the last group of carriers to be powered by fossil fuels, which were replaced by the Navy's Nimitz-class nuclear-powered flattops. The name honored ...

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 ...

The French Navy aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle arrived in Goa on January 4. It received a grand welcome from the Indian Navy band. The carrier, with its strike group, will engage in various naval ...

clinging to hope after escaping the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Zuikaku before it sank. What began as another mission during World War II -- later known as the Battle of Leyte Gulf ...