Instead, it's accomplished by something most people likely don't consider when thinking about how an aircraft carrier operates. Carriers use catapults to launch aircraft off the deck and into the ...

A suspect has been taken into custody after a barricade situation in Norfolk on Thursday morning, according to police. <a href=" ...

The job at the top of the list of most dangerous in the military is working on the flight deck of an operational aircraft carrier. Kenny Loggins' hit song, "Danger Zone," which is featured in the ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

After seven months in port, the USS Nimitz is back at sea. The aircraft carrier, CVN 68, returned to operations on Friday, June 22, following a few days of sea trials. The carrier had spent more ...

The U.S. Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as the cosmic equivalent of an aircraft carrier. Appropriately known as an "orbital carrier," the ...

China's first operational aircraft carrier. The report quoted Zhang Naigang, an officer on the Soviet-built warship. Military observers have been speculating about the J-35, a Chinese next ...

The Navy has begun the process of retiring its oldest aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, which was commissioned in 1975. Huntington Ingalls Inc. has received an $18.4 million contract from U.S ...

Three miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, an underwater robot descended through an opening in the deck of the sunken aircraft carrier and eased toward the image its operators wanted to see.

The Sea Vampire made history as the first jet-powered aircraft to land on a carrier in 1945. The UK and US navies developed fighter jets to operate aboard aircraft carriers after World War II.