Summary and Key Points: Navies initially explored hybrid battleship-aircraft carriers to integrate air power with traditional naval firepower. The Royal Navy's HMS Furious in 1918 marked the first ...

Not big enough to be an aircraft carrier and heavier than a cruiser, the Russian Kiev-class carrier was a hybrid ship meant to answer the U.S. Navy’s growth of submarine-launched nuclear ...

The launch ceremony for the Sichuan at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard, Dec. 29, 2024.

The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way to a scrapyard in Texas and too large to slip through the Panama Canal, the ship must sail around South America. In her 16,000-mile ...