Aircraft carriers are often described as unsinkable, protected by some of the most advanced defenses ever built. Yet in late ...

The rapid buildup to the biggest, baddest aircraft carriers started with the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor.

It has become fashionable to argue that aircraft carriers are becoming obsolete. Critics question their value in an era of technological advancement, when new capabilities such as advanced autonomous ...

An aircraft carrier is an enormous and imposing vessel. They also represent gigantic investments in terms of not only money but in development time and other resources. The last thing a nation would ...

Article Summary and Key Points - The Royal Navy’s two Queen Elizabeth-class carriers were meant to restore British power projection but have been plagued by breakdowns, flooding, shaft failures, and ...

While the scope and technology of naval power have evolved immensely in the 80 years since World War II ended, the aircraft carrier continues to be one of the most powerful and important weapons on ...

The world's largest and most expensive aircraft carrier has arrived in the Caribbean. U.S. Southern Command announced Sunday that the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group had made its way into the ...

Although the US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, only around half are deployed at any given time—with the rest in port or undergoing maintenance. The United States Navy ...

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a commissioning and flag-presenting ceremony of the Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier and the first that it has both designed and built itself ...

Although “aircraft carriers” come in many sizes and shapes, the largest and most advanced supercarriers all fit a pattern—carved out by the US Navy for others to emulate. Modern aircraft carriers are ...