Aircraft carriers are a key component of the U.S. Navy, supporting aerial attacks, security missions, and disaster responses by offering a launch and landing zone for dozens of aircraft while out ...

An aircraft carrier airwing’s mainstay will always be its fighter jets, through which the carrier battle group can project force and take the fight to an adversary. The U.S. Navy has the largest ...

Not all aircraft carriers launch planes the same way. Some use steam or electromagnetic catapults to "fling" aircraft into the air. Others use a ski jump: a simple upward-curved ramp that lets ...

The aircraft carrier, now just over one hundred years old, is one of the most resilient weapons of the modern era. More than ...

A US Navy aircraft carrier deployed to the Red Sea lost a $60 million fighter jet on Monday. The aircraft fell overboard after a move crew "lost control" of the jet, the Navy said. It's the second ...

Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...

The U.S. Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as the cosmic equivalent of an aircraft carrier. Appropriately known as an "orbital carrier," the ...

Photo: U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Isaac Esposito Working on an aircraft carrier is perhaps the most dangerous thing somebody can do in our day and age. No matter the role one ...

A multi-million-dollar US warplane fell off the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier into the Red Sea on Monday in an accident that injured one sailor, the Navy said. A tractor that was towing the ...

Aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman is moored near Split, Croatia, in 2022. (Darko Bandic/AP) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman to remain in the Middle ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-19 carefully stalked the USS Wasp, a lightly armored aircraft carrier operating near Guadalcanal. Despite her innovative features like a deck-edge elevator ...

The fighter jet slipped off the hangar deck of the aircraft carrier, deployed to the Middle East, as sailors were towing the aircraft into place in the hangar bay, the Navy said. Two U.S ...