Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: In the 1930s, the U.S. Navy experimented with "flying aircraft carriers" in the form of rigid airships USS Akron and USS Macon. These massive dirigibles ...

In the 1920s, aircraft carriers, including Hosho, the Royal Navy’s Argus, and the U.S. Navy’s Langley, were equipped with biplane fighters and reconnaissance aircraft.

After bringing back Pete “Maverick” Mitchell for one last flight in last year’s Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise is once again climbing aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, just not as a naval aviator.

After a grueling eight months leading the Navy’s effort to counter Iran-backed Houthi rebel attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the aircraft carrier Dwight D ...

The latest budget war puts our Navy in dangerous straits. A shocking decision could delay the aircraft carrier program for two years, while the threat from China continues to worsen.

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier is now on its first deployment, five years after it was commissioned into service and 15 years after its naming.

Here's a look at where the Navy's carriers are now: Get top local San Diego stories delivered to you every morning with our News Headlines newsletter. SIGN UP . USS George Washington.

The Navy’s current aircraft carrier force consists of 11 nuclear carriers, including 10 Nimitz-class ships that entered service between 1975 and 2009, and the Gerald R. Ford, which was ...

WASHINGTON – The Navy fired the captain of a U.S. aircraft carrier that struck a cargo ship in the Mediterranean Sea on Feb. 12. Capt. Dave Snowden, who took command of the nuclear-powered USS ...

A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been lost at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was being towed on board, the Navy said in a statement ...

A U.S. Navy aircraft carrier collided with a Panamanian-flagged merchant vessel near near the Suez Canal in the Mediterranean Seaon on Wednesday night, according to a statement from the military.

Eisenhower carrier strike group deployment extended “There really just aren’t enough ships to go around,” Martin told Navy Times. “Now, that’s not necessarily strictly, or always, a ...