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battlecruiser and its only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, have become national embarrassments due to their outdated and inefficient designs.

On March 4, 2018 an expedition funded by philanthropist Paul Allen discovered the shattered remnants of the carrier USS Lexington two miles below the ocean’s surface in the Coral Sea.The first ...

Russian navy nuclear-powered battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy near St. Petersburg in July 2017. Igor Russak/NurPhoto/Getty Images 2023-05-24T18:39:13Z ...

Tags: Aircraft Carrier, America, Battlecruiser, Carrier, and U.S. Navy How the U.S. Navy Took a Battlecruiser and Made It Into an Aircraft Carrier July 14, 2019 ...

A team led by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says it has found the wreck of the USS Lexington, an aircraft carrier that was sunk in World War II with the loss of more than 200 sailors.

Russian aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov in transit to the Mediterranean Sea on Oct. 18, 2016. UK MoD Photo. The Russian navy has deployed the core of its Murmansk-based Northern Fleet to the ...

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 ...

There is no doubt that Russia’s Kirov class super-sized nuclear cruisers are charismatic fighting machines. Bristling with sensors and weaponry, and seemingly alien in design when compared to ...

In 1920, the U.S Navy launched is first aircraft carrier USS Langley (CV-1), originally a built as a collier but converted with a full-length flight deck. The Langley proved to be an important ...

The US Navy’s newest and biggest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, is set be deployed to the Mediterranean, according to a report. It’s the latest public movement of military hardware ...