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 ...

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

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

Dive bombers from Air Group 19 joined Essex aircraft in punishing attacks on the light carrier Chitose, sending her to the bottom. Lexington’s aviators achieved poetic justice by sinking fleet carrier ...

A US Navy fighter jet was lost at sea after falling from an aircraft carrier, the service announced.The incident occurred as the USS Harry S. Truman was conducting operations in the Red Sea, the Navy ...

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration team used an underwater vehicle to explore the wreck of the USS Yorktown, one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for ...

It was a big day when Ensign Fuller arrived on the huge Essex Class aircraft carrier Bennington to start flying combat missions against Okinawa.

The Essex-class aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1943, converted to an attack aircraft carrier in the 1950s and then to an anti-submarine aircraft carrier in 1957.

This class of ship was meant to improve on the Brooklyn-class with better combat survivability and anti-aircraft guns.

The article highlights the top five U.S. aircraft carriers based on technical specifications and historical significance.