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Long-range missiles, satellites and drones have made U.S. aircraft carriers more vulnerable than ever. Yet moving carriers remain hard to target, their strike groups...
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Long-range missiles, satellites and drones have made U.S. aircraft carriers more vulnerable than ever. Yet moving carriers remain hard to target, their strike groups...
The USS George Washington strike group came through the Luzon Strait on July 22, and two days later Chinese vessels were using water cannons...
The story gets repeated in a fixed shape: a cheap Canadian diesel submarine caught a nuclear supercarrier during a 1981 NATO exercise. The documentary...
The Soviet Union completed four nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruisers, and as of this summer their fates diverge completely. One went for dismantlement under a five-billion-ruble...
The Navy planned 32 Zumwalt-class destroyers and built three. It planned 20 Constellation-class frigates, and cancelled the program in November 2025 with two under...
The question people ask is whether China could sink an American supercarrier. It is the wrong question. A carrier that still floats but cannot...
The Gerald R. Ford class kept the size, propulsion and mission of the Nimitz class and replaced almost everything that moves aircraft and weapons....
The USS America was not lost in combat. In 2005, nine years after leaving service, the Navy took the retired supercarrier about 250 miles...
Japan is not building an aircraft carrier. It is rebuilding two ships it already has. JS Izumo and JS Kaga entered service as helicopter...
USS Nimitz entered service in 1975 and became the lead ship of a 10-carrier class that defined American naval power. Its record spans the...