-Her sinking proved difficult due to her double-layered hull and advanced compartmentalization, making her a formidable vessel even in retirement. In 2005, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier sunk for ...

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

Only two nations have ever destroyed a U.S. aircraft carrier. Japan destroyed several during World War II, while Germany sank ...

The remains of the Navy’s last conventionally-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is on its way from the Navy’s ...

Furthermore, Iranian media has fantasized for years about sinking an aircraft carrier. In the country's state-controlled media, the massive ships are often seen as targets ripe for sinking.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: A Chinese admiral and pundit told a trade-show audience that Beijing could resolve China’s territorial disputes by sinking two U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and ...

Kennedy aircraft carrier will embark on its final voyage ... where it'll be cleaned and prepped before being sunk off the Florida coast. Sources say that was the final hurdle to clear allowing ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Oriskany, a retired Essex-class aircraft carrier, now rests off Florida’s coast as the world’s largest artificial reef. Sunk in 2006, the “Great Carrier ...

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final ... After his motor torpedo boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, he famously helped save his men from the water and relayed ...