During World War II, aircraft carriers revolutionized naval warfare, and several stood out for their significant ...

The Essex-class aircraft carriers proved their worth in World War II, setting a standard for naval aviation. Built without ...

The Midway-class aircraft carriers, named after the iconic Battle of Midway, consisted of three ships—USS Midway, USS Coral ...

The Navy has begun the process of retiring its oldest aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, which was commissioned in 1975.

The Navy plans on naming its fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier after World War II hero Doris 'Dorie' Miller, an African-American sailor recognized for his heroism during the 1941 attack on Pearl ...

But the trainer carriers had a problem with what is called "wind over the deck." When there was little or no wind on Lake Michigan, training had to stop because the carriers couldn't generate ...

originally intended as a battleship but converted into an aircraft carrier during World War II. Summary and Key Points: The Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier Shinano was an ill-fated warship ...

The wreck of a US aircraft carrier that was sunk during World ... because she was one of the capital ships that was lost during WWII," Vulcan spokesman Robert Kraft said. Pictures from the seabed ...

The operational tests for F-35B stealth fighters comes after Japan recently finished modification work on a newly converted ...

The Pentagon’s rare move to keep two Navy aircraft carriers in the Middle East over the past several weeks has now finished.

A captured Japanese fighter pilot was "convinced Japan had lost the war" after he saw the ships of the Navy's Task Force 58 ...

The US operates 10 Nimitz-class flat top aircraft carriers, more than the rest of the world, but for the first time since the close of World War II, not a single carrier is deployed. The US had ...