Aircraft carriers help China, which has the world’s largest navy, project military power farther into the Pacific.

Modern missiles and drones are testing the aircraft carrier’s dominance, but its layered defenses and evolving role tell a ...

Chinese military could learn from rival’s strengths in search and rescue response, but also its weaknesses in maintenance and ...

China plans to field a force of nine aircraft carriers by 2035, according to a Defense Department report on Beijing’s ...

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The Kremlin mothballed Admiral Kuznetsov, ending a refit that began more than seven years ago. Russia is the only permanent ...

For roughly 100 years, the aircraft carrier has sailed the open ocean. The ship began to take shape in the early 1900s, and the United States' first operational carrier, the USS Langley, launched in ...

In October, three B-52 bombers took off from an airbase in Louisiana and circled off the coast of Venezuela before returning, ...

The most advanced U.S. aircraft carrier is expected to reach the waters off Venezuela in days, a flex of American military power not seen in Latin America for generations. Experts disagree on the ...

Macron said that France needed to be "strong to be feared" as Paris aims to enhance its projection as a naval power.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump dramatically escalated a U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean on Friday by deploying the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier group to Latin America, a show of force that ...