Critics argue that in an era of cheap drones and long-range “carrier-killer” missiles, $13-billion Ford-class carriers are oversized targets. -But that’s only half the story. -Rather than retire the ...

In 2005, the U.S. Navy turned retired aircraft carrier USS America into the ultimate test article, subjecting her to a four-week sinking exercise to understand how modern supercarriers actually die.

At the operational level, the cost to acquire the U.S. forces arrayed for Southern Spear is at least seven times the annual ...

NATO’s recent madcap effort to track down a Russian submarine in the North Sea shows that the threat to America’s aircraft carriers is far greater than the Pentagon lets on. To be clear: a Russian ...