America’s Essex-class aircraft carriers were the backbone of U.S. naval power in World War II’s Pacific War and stayed ...

This post has been updated to show USS Tripoli (LHA-7) is in port in Vietnam, not in the Philippine Sea. These are the ...

Dr. Brent Eastwood tackles the growing argument that U.S. supercarriers are overpriced targets in an era of Chinese ...

The announcement came as US defence secretary Jim Mattis visited the communist nation following a stopover in Indonesia on a brief Asia tour aimed at drumming up defence cooperation. On his two-day ...

11 massive aircraft carriers make up the U.S. Navy's fleet, and though that's a very specific number, it doesn't seem to be chosen for a specific reason–other than it's the law. The government ...

China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy carrier, two former US carrier officers say, a substantial combat limitation ...

The US Navy has recovered two aircraft that crashed into the South China Sea in October while flying off the USS Nimitz, the service said in a statement Tuesday.