The Chinese navy, the largest in the world by hull count, deployed its aircraft carriers—CNS Liaoning and CNS Shandong—to the eastern side of the first island chain simultaneously for the ...

Sailors with the USS Oscar Austin were awarded Combat Action Ribbons for providing air and missile defense during deployments to the Red Sea.

For the first time ever, two Chinese aircraft carriers operated simultaneously in the western Pacific beyond a strategic island defense line meant to keep China's naval forces in check.

In a display of Beijing’s growing military reach, the Chinese Navy sent two aircraft carriers into the Pacific Ocean, far from the country’s coast, for the first time to conduct exercises ...

The US Navy is mandated by Federal law to maintain at least 11 operational aircraft carriers at any given time. But why 11? Footage from Getty Images and the US Department of Defense. Note: The ...

A Chinese aircraft carrier is conducting drills hundreds of miles south of Japan’s main island, venturing into waters that could be strategically vital in a conflict with the U.S. in the Pacific.

All three of China’s aircraft carriers recently went to sea. The two commissioned carriers, CNS Liaoning (CV-16) and CNS Shandong (CV-17), operated around Taiwan and in the South China Sea and ...

If the Navy procures the fifth and sixth Ford-class aircraft carriers as a block buy, it could save taxpayers about $5 billion over buying them individually, the Navy’s top acquisition official told ...

WASHINGTON — A block buy of the fifth and sixth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers stands to save the US Navy approximately $5 billion compared to purchasing the ships individually, the ...

The evening of May 6, an F/A-18 Super Hornet was coming in for a landing on the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea. An onboard mechanism to slow down the fighter jet failed, and ...

A Russian Beriev A-50. AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File Among the other planes that Ukraine said it hit are ones Russia has used to fire missiles in its invasion.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a highly rare move that will strip the ship of the moniker of a slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor … ...