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

The ex-aircraft carrier ... Navy's Nimitz-class nuclear-powered flattops. The name honored the president slain five years before, who had served as a naval officer during World War II.

The future USS Enterprise is one of two Ford-class carriers that wasn't named after a US president. It carries on a storied name whose heritage includes the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft ...

Ten vessels encompass the U.S. Navy's fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The Kennedy had been out of service for the ...

The ex-aircraft ... of carriers to be powered by fossil fuels, which were replaced by the Navy's Nimitz-class nuclear-powered flattops. The name honored the president slain five years before, who had ...

Indeed, this flat top—like all America’s carriers, not only the Nimitz-class but the newer Ford-class as well—were all designed to fight yesterday’s war. Today, the Nimitz and her progeny ...

Taking this as a rough estimate, for the cost of one Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, anywhere between sixty-nine and 373 ekranoplans could be built. This is where the aircraft carrier enthusiast ...

The aircraft carriers CVN-78, CVN-79, CVN-80, CVN-81, CVN-82, and CVN-83 are the first six ships in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs).

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 ...