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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...
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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...
USS Gerald R. Ford’s toilet trouble began before the carrier entered full operational service. The Navy has dealt with clogs, vacuum failures, sewage backups...
The four Kiev-class ships the Soviet Union commissioned between 1975 and 1987 looked like nothing else at sea. An angled flight deck ran down...
The most expensive warship ever built came home with a repair list. USS Gerald R. Ford has arrived at Norfolk Naval Shipyard after a...
USS Carl Vinson entered service in 1982 and has since fought over Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen, while also delivering aid after Haiti’s earthquake....
USS George Washington entered Newport News for a four-year overhaul in 2017 but did not return to the Navy until May 2023. Hidden turbine...
When the Navy retired the conventionally powered carriers Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy, it transferred them to a shipbreaker for one cent each,...
The USS Essex went from keel laying to commissioning in 20 months. The Yorktown did it in about 16. Between December 1942 and the...
The U.S. Navy has known since 2005 that a quiet diesel submarine can slip past a carrier's defenses and score a kill, because a...
For decades, strategists have warned that the aircraft carrier is going the way of the battleship — too big, too costly, too easy to...