In the 1960s, the Soviet Union was determined to dominate the skies with a new breed of aircraft designed for rapid, long-range strikes against enemy aircraft carrier formations. The T-4 "Sotka," ...

The Chinese Navy officially commissioned its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, in 2012. It took four years of trials and training -- and a number of accidents – before the was declared ...

Its primary objective was to attack NATO aircraft carrier fleets. Approximately 505 feet in length, the Oscars displaced roughly 24,000 tons of water when submerged.

On October 15th 2016, the 43,000 ton Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuzentsov slipped out of the Kola Bay fjord in the Barents Sea. Escorted by a small flotilla of warships including the ...

China China advances toward nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with new reactor prototype The Chinese navy, already the world's largest, aims to create a 'blue-water' force capable of operating globally ...

Once part of the mighty Soviet Pacific Fleet, the Minsk was the second of four Kiev-class aircraft carriers built by the Soviet Union between 1970 and 1987.

The aircraft carrier Minsk from the former Soviet Union anchors at the Minsk World theme park on May 5, 2005, in Shenzhen of Guangdong Province, China. China Photos/Getty Images ...

A former Soviet aircraft carrier burned in a waterway near Shanghai over the weekend, the latest setback for the decommissioned warship since its conversion into a Chinese tourist attraction. The ...

Once part of the mighty Soviet Pacific Fleet, the Minsk was the second of four Kiev-class aircraft carriers built by the Soviet Union between 1970 and 1987. Conventionally powered and with a ...

Conventionally powered and with a displacement of about 42,000 tons – less than half that of a US Navy Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier – the 896-feet (273 meter) ship could carry ...

Even more interesting is that the carrier has been undergoing upgrades and repairs since 2018. So it's not even out sailing around like the United States' 11 nuclear aircraft carriers.

As time claims the last of its participants, the epic Normandy landings on D-Day and the battles that followed are recalled 80 years later.