The F-35 programme, which could cost up to £71 billion over its lifetime, has suffered delays and personnel shortages, the National Audit ...

The U.S. Navy once considered a radical and powerful warship concept: the “battlecarrier,” a hybrid of a battleship and an ...

Iowa-class battleships measured 887 feet long and displaced 58,460 tons, with crews ranging from 2,500 during WWII to 1,573 ...

Delivery of the Navy's next Ford-class aircraft carrier, the John F. Kennedy, was delayed two more years to 2027, budget ...

This story has been updated to include a statement from HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding. The next Ford-class aircraft carrier ...

On July 3, 1948, the North American AJ Savage made its first flight-becoming the U.S. Navy's first carrier-based bomber ...

Based on standard aircraft carrier cruising speeds, we can estimate that a carrier will take about six days to perform the ...

The US Navy’s fleet of 10 Nimitz-class and one Ford-class aircraft carriers unquestionably dominate the seas in terms of warship power. No other military in the world possesses a nuclear-powered ...

The proposed US Navy (USN) Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget requests includes about USD3.3 billion in incremental funding for Ford-class aircraft carriers Enterprise (CVN ...

Publication date 1950-04-18 Topics Booklet of General Plans, CV-21, USS Boxer, Fleet Carrier, Essex Class, US Navy, CV, USA, General Arrangement Plan, Deck Plan, BOGP, Aircraft Carrier, Blueprint, ...

ESSEX JUNCTION — Retired local teacher Linda McKenna taught her final year of kindergarten at Essex Elementary in 2012. This spring, her last class of kindergarteners graduated from Essex High School.

Nimitz-class aircraft carriers are the biggest ships in the Navy, measuring almost 1,100 ft from bow to stern.