Midway on June 4, 1942 was a decisive battle of the Pacific War. Lt. Richard Best is in Squadron Six(VB-6) of the USS Enterprise Air flying an SBD Dauntless bomber. The Americans are going up against ...

U.S. Yorktown Class Arguably the most successful class of warship ever built, and certainly one of the most decorated, the Yorktowns were the model for all future U.S. carrier designs ... suicide ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Hōshō’s basic design would be used for other Japanese carriers including the Akagi, Kaga, and Ryūjō, but unlike those ships, which were all sunk during ...

clinging to hope after escaping the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Zuikaku before it sank. What began as another mission during World War II -- later known as the Battle of Leyte Gulf ...

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

Two Air Self-Defense Force C-2 transport aircraft departed from Miho Air Base in Tottori Prefecture on the morning of Oct. 3 to evacuate Japanese nationals from Lebanon, which Israel has invaded.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

The time has come for the US Navy to field a new type of ship to supplement its supercarriers: Drone flattops. They would be crewed by robots and artificial intelligence, alongside human sailors ...

Two bulk carriers collided in China's Yangtze river, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said on Tuesday, adding that no injuries to the crew were reported. Vega Dream, owned and ...

The meta-problem with the aircraft carrier is straightforward enough. Every new development in missile technology makes it harder and harder to claim that aircraft carriers are worth the ticket price.