Instead of having three aircraft ... carrier ambitions. Chief among them is the cost of not only building but maintaining a carrier. In addition, the reliability of the Russian-built Kiev-class ...

Summary: The Soviet-era Minsk aircraft carrier, originally a Kiev-class “heavy aviation cruiser,” has had a unique post-service life as a museum piece in a now-defunct Chinese theme park.

Vice Admiral Rajaram Swaminathan replaced Vice Admiral B Sivakumar as the Controller of Warship Production & Acquisition on Thursday. A post-graduate from IIT, Kharagpur, Vice Admiral Swaminathan, who ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

The White House announced Monday that the Navy will name the two latest Ford-class aircraft carriers after former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The future USS William J. Clinton and ...

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 ...

The aircraft carriers CVN-78, CVN-79, CVN-80, CVN-81, CVN-82, and CVN-83 are the first six ships in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs).

The two names continue the convention for namesakes of USS Ford-class carriers, the Navy’s current largest and newest aircraft carriers. Of the six Ford-class ships under construction or ...

Bush. The carriers, named after former President Bill Clinton and former President George W. Bush, will begin construction in the "years ahead" as part of the latest class of aircraft carriers ...

Two future Ford-class aircraft carriers are being named after Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. It's the US Navy convention to name nuclear-powered flattops after presidents, with some ...