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 ...

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

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

Two future Ford-class aircraft carriers are being named after Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. It's the US Navy convention to name nuclear-powered flattops after presidents, with some ...

The EMALS is an electromagnetic catapult that relies upon a linear induction motor, rather than a traditional steam piston, to launch aircraft. The Ford-class aircraft carriers are the most expensive ...

A traditional carrier — not counting its wing of 30 to 90 manned aircraft such as the F-35C fighter — is formidably expensive: around $11 billion each for a 100,000-ton US Ford-class nuclear-powered ...

China's claims in the South China Sea overlap with those of the Philippines, which is a U.S. security treaty ally.

Some carrier lovers might defend the Nimitz’s age by saying that the United States ... its aircraft carriers into contested regions, such as in the Indo-Pacific. A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier ...

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