the second battleship. To the third crew, Lieutenant Martellotta and chief diver Marino, the following orders were given: “ Check if there are any aircraft carriers in port. If no aircraft ...

You and your kids can play the Victory the Dog scavenger hunt USS Battleship Iowa Museum in San Pedro A visit ... and they host multiple craft workshops that are open to all. There is paid parking ...

Andrew F. Straughn, PFC, U.S. Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.I. Straughn, Rt. 2, Andalusia, has been promoted from Private. He is serving with a unit of the Ninth Marine Aircraft Wing which is ...

The USS John F. Kennedy is traveling from Philadelphia to Brownsville for dismantling. The ship made multiple tours of the ...

On May 11th 2020, an important historical discovery concerning the United States’ military history was announced that went largely unnoticed by the wider public because of the Covid-19 pandemic that ...

Key point: During the Cold War, such a combined warship was considered. It would have carried harrier jump jets and have been very expensive. In the early 1980s, the Reagan Administration was ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

The resulting “battle carriers” were half carrier and half battleship, and all disappointment. By 1943 it was clear that battleships and aircraft carriers had very different roles.

The meta-problem with the aircraft carrier is straightforward enough. Every new development in missile technology makes it harder and harder to claim that aircraft carriers are worth the ticket price.

In time, one or more all-UAV carriers might be used as the centerpiece of a carrier strike group." A traditional carrier — not counting its wing of 30 to 90 manned aircraft such as the F-35C ...

A United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier continued to patrol the South China Sea this week, following a bilateral naval exercise with Washington's ally the Philippines. USS Carl Vinson ...