H umans have always looked skyward in envy of birds, bees, and anything else that can take flight. Soaring up above the Earth has long been a task that occupied human minds, from the ancient Greek ...

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.

The time has come for the US Navy to field a new type of ship to supplement its supercarriers: Drone flattops. They would be crewed by robots and artificial intelligence, alongside human sailors ...

The most advanced but yet-to-be-commissioned Chinese aircraft carrier, CNS Fujian, has been spotted inside a dry dock by satellites after a series of sea trials over the past nine months.

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 ...

Analysts with RAND Corp. say it is time for the US Navy to field drone aircraft carriers. These drone carriers disperse combat power at less expense and with less crew. A fleet of drone carriers could ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final journey to the scrapyard. The decommissioned vessel was the last conventionally powered flattop built by the US Navy. The Kennedy namesake will ...

Reports of China’s completing its ninth Type 055 guided missile cruiser and the inclusion of introductory flight operations by China’s latest carrier, Fujian, are but two components of Beijing’s ...

The F-35 will replace AV-8B Harrier IIs in the Marine Corps inventory ... conventionally from longer runways on major bases. F-35B aircraft have been delivered to the U.S. Marines and the U.K ...

French aircraft carrier strike group (CSG) led by FNSCharles De Gaulle on a deployment in the Indian Ocean is set to make stopovers at Goa and Kochi in the next few days. The CSG operates Rafale-M ...

“Their legacies will endure through these aircraft carriers, which serve as formidable platforms dedicated to safeguarding our national security and strengthening our resolve to protect this nation ...