Environmentalists condemned Brazil for sinking a six-decade-old aircraft carrier “Sao Paulo” in the Atlantic Ocean saying that the ageing warship was packed with toxic materials and will cause ...

The decision to scuttle the six-decade-old aircraft carrier “Sao Paulo” came after Brazilian authorities ... Though defence officials said they would sink the vessel in the “safest area ...

The old hull, full of asbestos, paint, and other toxic waste, has been anchored 315 kilometers off the Brazilian coast, to prevent drifting, but the possibility that it might sink has not been ...

A Federal Court in Pernambuco, northeast of Brazil ... scrap from the old carrier, originally from France. Sold for dismantling to a Turkish company, the hull of the former aircraft carrier ...

Knowing this probably deters China (and Russia and Iran, if those countries really do have carrier-killers) from trying to sink U.S. carriers outright. The Chinese DF-21D is actually designed not ...

The Nimitz Class aircraft carrier continues to be the centerpiece of the forces necessary for operating forward. In times of crisis, the first question leaders ask in a crisis is: “Where are the ...

The Gerald R. Ford class is the future aircraft carrier replacement class for Enterprise and Nimitz class aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy. The Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) was ordered from Newport ...

North Korea continues missile launches as U.S. redeploys an aircraft carrier North Korea has launched two ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, as the United States redeployed one of its ...

The modernization of the flagship of the Russian Navy, the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, will commence before July 2017 at the Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk in Northern Russia and ...

A U.S. aircraft carrier has arrived in Oslo with the Norwegian armed forces, which gives them an opportunity further develop cooperation. The nuclear-powered USS Gerald R. Ford entered the Oslo ...

OSLO (Reuters) -The world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, sailed into Oslo on Wednesday, a first for such a U.S. ship, in a show of NATO force at a time of heightened tension ...

Let me wade in as well; the water’s fine. Ricks takes aim at the U.S. Navy’s fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in particular. He cites the expense of CVNs, but Bryan zeroes in mainly ...