Summary and Key Points: The Navy’s Ford-class naming decisions are fueling fresh speculation about which leaders are “next in line.” After the announcement that future carriers CVN-82 and CVN-83 will ...

The rapid buildup to the biggest, baddest aircraft carriers started with the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor.

How can the most flexible of all the world’s airfields, which is also the easiest to notice, be located? Modern carrier operations are now based on that tension. Even today, U.S. Navy aircraft ...

The U.S. Navy’s top uniformed officer has introduced his vision for the Navy's future, focusing on using smaller and newer ...

The hot item on the Navy’s drone wish list is unmanned aircraft that sailors can launch from smaller ships to carry out long-range attacks.

A dramatic formation of jets and helicopters swept over the USS Gerald R. Ford, marking a significant event in the carrier's ...

C Eagles, Two F/A-18E Super Hornets and Two F-35C Lightning IIs will honor America's 250th birthday by flying over Levi's ...

Although the US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, only around half are deployed at any given time—with the rest in port or undergoing maintenance. The United States Navy ...

China’s navy is gradually moving closer to becoming a peer adversary for U.S.naval forces in the Pacific region, as evidenced by China’s growing number of modern aircraft carriers and amphibious ...

China is working hard to catch up to the United States in terms of naval superiority. Here's how many ships it plans to build ...

Even the U.S. Navy isn't immune to error. Deploying far away from home on both routine and high-risk missions, across hundreds of ships and thousands more aircraft ...

The White House says talks between special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian officials are still planned after a Navy fighter ...