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 ...

This makes it easier to launch from the carrier thanks to aircraft catapults that use high-pressure steam to sling aircraft forward for takeoff. Throughout the years, though, some aircraft ...

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 ...

Most people know that the United States has several aircraft carriers, but what isn't as well known is how they operate.

One minor injury was reported in the extraordinary mishap. An F/A-18E fighter jet rolled off the side an aircraft carrier and sank to the bottom of the Red Sea, the Navy announced on Monday.

Newsweek was not independently able to confirm this. Aircraft carrier collisions are extremely rare because when such vessels go on deployment they are surrounded by other warships, but those ...

The US Navy has relieved the commander of an aircraft carrier that collided with a mercantile vessel in the Mediterranean Sea near the entrance to the Suez Canal. Capt. Dave Snowden was serving as ...

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 ...