The National Interest10d
How One Pilot Sunk Two Aircraft Carriers At the Battle of Midway
As this reporter argued in an article in The National Interest published on January 23, 2025, the U.S. Navy’s Douglas SBD ...
The National Interest9d
It’s a Miracle Russia’s Aircraft Carrier Hasn’t Sunk Yet
The Soviets who designed the carrier did not install a catapult system, meaning that the Admiral Kuznetsov must takeoff vi ...
A US Navy aircraft carrier fresh off the Red Sea fight collided with a commercial ship near Egypt
A Navy spokesperson said the collision did not endanger the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. The situation ...
U.S. aircraft carrier collides with large cargo ship in Mediterranean Sea
The USS Harry S. Truman collided with a 618-foot-long cargo ship off the coast of Egypt overnight. The Navy says no one on ...
Popular Mechanics6d
China Has Unlocked the Secret to Winning the Aircraft Carrier Race—And That’s a Direct Threat to America
As China’s new aircraft carrier fleet continues to grow in anticipation ... if neither has been sunk in combat.) While the ships will remain the same, there are already changes afoot that ...
The one-of-a-kind ex-USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier is heading to the scrapyard, but a new JFK flattop is coming
See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.
The most famous ships built in Newcastle and Tyneside yards
The Esso Northumbria was the first in a series of Very Large Crude Carrier ships, built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend in 1969. At the time, she was the largest vessel to have been built in Britain.
Time27d
Army & Navy – Air Power is Sea Power
There is no excuse for an aircraft carrier being sunk either by gunfire or submarine attack, and any carrier so sunk was poorly operated at the time. So wrote Annapolis-trained, 34-year-old Lieut.