4 Points You Need to Know: Russia's Kirov-class battlecruiser and its only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, have become national embarrassments due to their outdated and inefficient designs.

Escorted by a small flotilla of warships including the powerful Pyotr Velikiy battlecruiser, the carrier sailed through the North Sea and down the English Channel in to the Atlantic before ...

It's easy to see why nuclear power is suitable for ships, as reactors generate a lot of power for their size, compared to ...

In 2016, the carrier sailed to Syria — belching thick ... reported in April that the battlecruiser may be retired instead because of the high costs of Admiral Nakhimov's refit.

Originally designed as a battlecruiser, it was converted into an aircraft carrier, becoming the Navy’s first full-sized fleet carrier, CV-2. The Lexington was pivotal in developing carrier ...

A battlecruiser might have as many as 250 missile silos, or the equivalent of 250,000 pounds of high explosives. That’s about a day’s worth of carrier flight operations. A major complication ...

The carrier’s construction formally began in November 2009 and it was commissioned in 2017 by former President Donald Trump, according to a US Navy release. The ship is the first Ford-class ...