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PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 30, 2007) - USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) conducts rudder checks as part of the ship's Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) following a six-month Planned Incremental Availability. All naval vessels are periodically inspected by INSURV to check their material condition and battle readiness. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class M. Jeremie Yoder (RELEASED)

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Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford’s Magnetic Bomb Elevators Were Built to Lift 24,000 Pounds and They Have to Work. 68 Times Did Not Work

Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford's 11 Advanced Weapons Elevators were built to move 24,000 pounds at 150 feet per minute and boost sorties...

Isaac SeitzOctober 8, 2026

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower conducts rudder turns during sea trials. Dwight D. Eisenhower completed a nine-month planned incremental availability at Norfolk Naval Ship Yard on June 10 and is scheduled to resume underway operations this summer.

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Arresting Gear Failed on US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Eisenhower and a EA-18G Growler Rolled Into the Atlantic. 2 Crew Ejected, 8 Went to Medical, and Flight Ops Stopped Until It’s Fixed

The arresting gear didn't hold. A VAQ-130 Growler rolled off aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower into the Atlantic, both aviators ejected, and the...

Steve BalestrieriOctober 7, 2026

Flying Aircraft Carrier Concept X Post Screenshot

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Lockheed’s 1969 Nuclear Flying Aircraft Carrier Had a 1,120-Foot Wingspan. At 11.85 Million Pounds, It Weighed 15 Times a 747 and Needed 182 Lift Jets

Lockheed's CL-1201 was a 5,375-ton flying aircraft carrier with a 1,120-foot wingspan, four nuclear-heated turbofans, 182 lift jets for takeoff, and the endurance to...

Harrison KassOctober 7, 2026

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F-111B Was Supposed to Be a Navy Aircraft Carrier Fighter. It Exceeded 80,000 Pounds, Needed a Wingspan 7 Feet Wider Than the Air Force Version Just to Slow Down Enough to Land, and the Navy Walked Away in May 1968.

The AWG-9 could track targets beyond 100 miles and the Tomcat carried six Phoenix missiles for six targets at Mach 2.34. The TF30 engines...

Christian D. OrrOctober 6, 2026

ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 14, 2011) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) conducts rudder turns during sea trials. Dwight D. Eisenhower completed a nine-month planned incremental availability at Norfolk Naval Ship Yard on June 10 and is scheduled to resume underway operations this summer. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Christopher Stoltz/Released)

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100,000 Tons, 70 Aircraft, 1 Target: The US Navy Has No Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Replacement Plan

Drones like the MQ-25 Stingray still need a deck to launch from, missiles are expended rather than reused, and America-class amphibious ships fly F-35Bs...

Harrison KassOctober 6, 2026

An F-14D Tomcat pulls up after performing a fly-by past the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) as the ship operates in the Atlantic Ocean on June 19, 2006. DoD photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Miguel A. Contreras, U.S. Navy. (Released) PH2 CONTRERAS MIGUEL

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F-14D Tomcat Retirement Left 100,000-Ton US Navy Nuclear Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers with a ‘Math Problem’ That Can’t Seem to Be Solved

'I used to have to fly the engines; now I fly the airplane,' one Tomcat pilot told museum docent Orrin Messinger, and a Grumman...

Christian D. OrrOctober 6, 2026

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100,000-Ton Wait: It Took 15 Long Years for the US Navy to Almost Get a New Ford-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier

After the first steel cut in 2011, the Navy finally took delivery of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-7) in August 2026....

Sean SpoontsOctober 5, 2026

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), right, and Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls (CG 62) sail in the South China Sea, Sept. 14, 2026. Frank E. Petersen Jr. is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. Units assigned to 7th Fleet conduct continuous patrols to deter aggression, strengthen alliances and partnerships, and advance peace through strength. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nathaly Cruz)

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Iran’s Missiles and Drones Missed US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carriers. It Attacked the Base That Fed Them. Resupply for the USS Abraham Lincoln Moved 2,200 Miles to Diego Garcia, and the Food, Mail and Soap Had to Come That Far.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier sailed from San Diego on November 21, 2025 for a seven-month deployment and was extended twice. Her air...

Steve BalestrieriOctober 5, 2026

USS Wasp CV-18 Aircraft Carrier Creative Commons

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A destroyer that survived Utah Beach and a kamikaze bomb turned in front of an aircraft carrier at 24 knots off Newfoundland in 1952, after her executive officer said the turn would hit it, and was cut in half, killing 176, while the carrier was back at sea in 10 days

USS Hobson's executive officer objected that the maneuver would put her on a collision course with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp, lost the argument,...

Isaac SeitzOctober 4, 2026

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A 65,000-ton aircraft carrier that cost £6.2 billion and £96 million a year to keep defends itself with three Gatling guns that reach about two kilometers and nothing that fires farther, leans on destroyers its navy is short of, and keeps getting sunk in exercises

The 65,000-ton aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and her sister HMS Prince of Wales cost £96 million a year each to maintain, fly F-35Bs...

Brandon WeichertOctober 4, 2026

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Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford’s Magnetic Bomb Elevators Were Built to Lift 24,000 Pounds and They Have to Work. 68 Times Did Not Work

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Arresting Gear Failed on US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Eisenhower and a EA-18G Growler Rolled Into the Atlantic. 2 Crew Ejected, 8 Went to Medical, and Flight Ops Stopped Until It’s Fixed

Aerospace & Defense

Lockheed’s 1969 Nuclear Flying Aircraft Carrier Had a 1,120-Foot Wingspan. At 11.85 Million Pounds, It Weighed 15 Times a 747 and Needed 182 Lift Jets

Aerospace & Defense

F-111B Was Supposed to Be a Navy Aircraft Carrier Fighter. It Exceeded 80,000 Pounds, Needed a Wingspan 7 Feet Wider Than the Air Force Version Just to Slow Down Enough to Land, and the Navy Walked Away in May 1968.

Aerospace & Defense

100,000 Tons, 70 Aircraft, 1 Target: The US Navy Has No Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Replacement Plan

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F-14D Tomcat Retirement Left 100,000-Ton US Navy Nuclear Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers with a ‘Math Problem’ That Can’t Seem to Be Solved

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100,000-Ton Wait: It Took 15 Long Years for the US Navy to Almost Get a New Ford-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier

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Iran’s Missiles and Drones Missed US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carriers. It Attacked the Base That Fed Them. Resupply for the USS Abraham Lincoln Moved 2,200 Miles to Diego Garcia, and the Food, Mail and Soap Had to Come That Far.

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A destroyer that survived Utah Beach and a kamikaze bomb turned in front of an aircraft carrier at 24 knots off Newfoundland in 1952, after her executive officer said the turn would hit it, and was cut in half, killing 176, while the carrier was back at sea in 10 days

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A 65,000-ton aircraft carrier that cost £6.2 billion and £96 million a year to keep defends itself with three Gatling guns that reach about two kilometers and nothing that fires farther, leans on destroyers its navy is short of, and keeps getting sunk in exercises

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