Hall Aluminum Aircraft Corporation, and other firms. The Navy needed a new torpedo bomber for its growing carrier fleet, with the USS Ranger to be commissioned later in the year. Douglas’s XTBD ...

The aircraft carriers CVN-78, CVN-79, CVN-80, CVN-81, and CVN-82 are the first five ships in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs). The Navy ...

USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is now in the Central Command area of responsibility, after transiting the Suez Canal on ...

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman was awarded a $3.5 billion US Navy contract to make the successor of the Boeing E-6B ...

CNS Shandong, the second Chinese aircraft carrier, conducted "far-seas training events" in the Philippine Sea in April, September, and November last year, the report said, as China's navy ...

A U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Just Sailed Into China's 'Backyard' The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) made a port call at Port Klang, Malaysia, marking the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier visit to ...

Newsweek 's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the strategic Indo-Pacific region. As of December 27, the locations of 11 vessels were publicly available via military disclosures or ...

The nine squadrons of the air wing saw a high operations tempo, including flying to take out drones and missiles fired at ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two US Navy pilots were shot down Sunday ... flown off the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, Central Command said. On Dec. 15, Central Command ...

Satellite images and Chinese documents point to work on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. A nuclear-powered carrier would be a major step toward China's "blue-water" navy ambitions. Researchers ...

The aircraft carriers Liaoning and Shandong of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy hold their first dual-carrier formation exercise in the South China Sea in Autumn 2024. Photo ...