The German ruling class dreams of building its own aircraft carrier. This was made clear by statements from leading government and opposition politicians last week. At a press conference with the ...

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin — "Graf" means "Count" in German. Since the Graf Zeppelin was Germany's first aircraft carrier, its engineers and architects predictably ran into many problems.

Displacing 33,550 tons—a little less than what the 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement allowed—the great ship boasted a top speed of 35 knots per hour, faster than many modern aircraft carriers.

This is the story of the Graf Zepplin class aircraft carrier, the German megaproject that did little but sat on the sidelines for the entire war before being used as target practice by the Soviets.

which would all but negate any damage brought by German U-boat torpedoes. With the ability to take repeated munitions from U-boats, the iceberg-borne aircraft carrier could theoretically locate ...

The great naval powers emerged from World War I relatively confident that the battleship would continue to decide question of naval warfare. German submarines had nearly starved Great Britain in ...

Gabor Steingart is one of the best-connected journalists in the German capital ... He literally writes: “Aircraft carriers, armoured divisions and the Iron Dome are currently not the last ...

When two of the Guadalcanal's F4F Wildcat aircraft spotted a U-505 ... their codes had been broken. The German submarine U-505 lies near the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal on June 4, 1944, after ...