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Unlike the U.S. Navy and its 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, Russia only has one carrier and it's not even nuclear-powered. That's not necessarily what makes it one of the worst aircraft ...

MANILA, Philippines — Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon on Thursday called for an investigation into a Philippine Airlines (PAL) aircraft’s emergency landing at Haneda Airport in Japan on ...

The US Navy's next aircraft carrier is almost finished but faces challenges with its elevators, among other technology. The advanced weapons elevators were previously an issue on the first-in ...

The Nimitz-class carrier is expected to stay out of service for an additional fourteen months than planned. As stated by Rear Adm. Casey J. Moton, commander, program executive officer for aircraft ...

The planned July delivery of the US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the John F. Kennedy, is likely to be missed because of long-unresolved “critical challenges” with elevators used to move ...

In early April, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force closely monitored the Shandong aircraft carrier of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), which was detected sailing alongside other vessels ...

Ahead of an upcoming deployment to the Pacific later this month, the Royal Navy has announced that the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales will employ cargo drones for ... concluding with diplomatic ...

Japanese-built bulk carriers have been leading the sales charts in the secondhand market in recent weeks, with analysts suggesting a possible shift in buyer preferences due to the proposed US port fee ...

With the Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong executing drills near Taiwan, the USS Carl Vinson transiting to the Middle East, and allied carriers like France’s Charles de Gaulle and Japan’s JS Kaga ...

The ships were monitored by Japanese military forces, who reported that the carrier had conducted dozens of sorties with fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft. JSDF 🇯🇵 released that the PLA-N ...

When the carrier designated today as Admiral Kuznetsov was first commissioned in the Soviet Navy during the Cold War, it was intended to lead a two-ship class of aircraft carriers for the USSR.