The meta-problem with the aircraft carrier is straightforward enough. Every new development in missile technology makes it harder and harder to claim that aircraft carriers are worth the ticket price.

But perhaps the wildest vehicle at the show was the electric Land Aircraft Carrier from XPENG of China ... they might have used in a James Bond movie, the company plans to bring this combination ...

He found beauty in the prosaic: bars, phone booths, hamburger joints, barber shops — first in a downtrodden Paterson, then ...

Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for targeting the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea, using ...

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 ...

A United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier continued to patrol the South China Sea this week, following a bilateral naval exercise with Washington's ally the Philippines. USS Carl Vinson ...

Analysts with RAND Corp. say it is time for the US Navy to field drone aircraft carriers. These drone carriers disperse combat power at less expense and with less crew. A fleet of drone carriers could ...

One of the greatest engineering feats in history, the modern U.S. nuclear carrier is a masterpiece of technology, and the flagship of the fleet. With RIMPAC, the world’s largest and most comprehensive ...

The most advanced but yet-to-be-commissioned Chinese aircraft carrier, CNS Fujian, has been spotted inside a dry dock by satellites after a series of sea trials over the past nine months.

With its planned retirement, one feat remains out of reach for the Raptor: landing and taking off from an aircraft carrier. We will never see a Raptor land on an aircraft carrier for two reasons. The ...

Spirit, for example, recently declared bankruptcy after the company's famous cost advantage over full-service competitors slowly dissipated. One of the most important financial decisions a low-cost ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final journey to the scrapyard. The decommissioned vessel was the last conventionally powered flattop built by the US Navy. The Kennedy namesake will ...