The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group provides presence and combat-ready forces in the South China Sea, the U.S. Seventh Fleet told ...

China currently has two operational aircraft carriers, which are based at two different naval bases in the country.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Hegseth keeps 2 aircraft carriers in Middle East for another week for battle with Yemen's Houthis (Credits: AP) Defense secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier ...

FILE - Aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is moored near Split, Croatia, Feb. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File) FILE - Aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is moored near Split ...

WASHINGTON: 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. A tractor that was towing the ...

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 ...