For decades, the aircraft carrier had been the ultimate symbol of maritime dominance-a floating airbase bristling with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. Just a year ago, Russian state media were still reporting that ...

Aircraft carriers are supposed to project power and resilience, yet naval history is littered with ships that instead ...

The USS Abraham Lincoln would be the first aircraft carrier to be deployed to the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran.

You may have had some bad days at work, but they probably didn't involve a $60 million mistake when you accidentally dumped a fighter jet into the ocean. That's exactly what happened aboard aircraft ...

The lead ship of the new Trump-class battleship is to cost as much as a Ford-class aircraft carrier, according to an analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Due to the ...

This post has been updated with photos of USS Abraham Lincoln sailing through the Strait of Malacca. The Abraham Lincoln ...

Dec. 27 (Asia Today) --China's push to become a major aircraft carrier power, which gained momentum after it commissioned its first carrier in 2012, could expand into a fleet of nine carriers by 2035, ...

The Pentagon has the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier in the Caribbean, which many viewed as a signal that the Trump administration was preparing for a major escalation in its military campaign ...

Cmdr. Douglas Hagenbuch, left, commanding officer of Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Seawolf (SSN-21), and Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi participate in a discussion during a ...

The U.S. Navy's Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, including the flagship USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), left, USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), front, USS Mahan (DDG 72), back, USS Bainbridge (DDG ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent call with Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro—during which Trump reportedly pressed Maduro to step down—follows a substantial increase in the U.S. military’s presence ...