Aircraft carriers usurped battleships in WWII due to their vastly superior range and strike power. Today, US supercarriers ...

Consider the largest of these hulking ships, America’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier ... pioneered on America’s newest Ford-class carriers. Electromagnetic catapults are broadly ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A second U.S. aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast ... The Vinson is accompanied by the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton and two ...

A second U.S. aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ... The Vinson is accompanied by the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton and two Arleigh Burke-class guided missile ...

(Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan Jordan/U.S. Navy via AP) This photograph released by the U.S. Navy shows a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter hovering over the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier while ...