The USS Gerald R. Ford, the U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carrier and the first of the Gerald R. Ford class, just left on its first deployment from Norfolk, Virginia, en... U.S. Chief of Naval ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

Getting a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ready for her maiden deployment is no small task. The good news is that recently the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) successfully conducted the Combat Systems ...

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

Nicknamed "Big John," the Kennedy completed 18 deployments over nearly four ... $2 billion shy of the $13 billion first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford. Measuring 1,092 feet in length — only a ...

The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) left Philadelphia Thursday for its final voyage. The ship will sail down to Brownsville, Texas, where it will be dismantled.

The new, nuclear-powered carriers will be officially named the USS William J ... to enter the fleet as part of the new class of Gerald R. Ford carriers, which are bigger and more capable than ...

Old soldiers (and old sailors for that matter) may fade away, but modern warships meet a crueler fate: they head to the scrap ...