At first, it gave strong consideration to converting Hyuga and Ise, two of its older battleships into aircraft carriers.

By 1943 it was clear that battleships and aircraft carriers had very different roles. Assigned to a carrier force, both Hyuga and Ise could contribute a marginal number of planes.

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

China's navy "drove away" a foreign warship that attempted to spy on its aircraft carrier during a long-distance training mission, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday. While the report did not ...

The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way ... especially docked alongside the battleship USS North Carolina in Wilmington, not far from town where the Wright brothers made ...