Russia is modernizing its Kirov-class nuclear-powered battlecruiser, Admiral Nakhimov, a Cold War-era warship designed to ...

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battlecruiser and its only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, have become national embarrassments due to their outdated and inefficient designs.

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Though carrier traps can be famously terrifying, the pilot of this F/A-18 was probably not particularly nervous. For Rear Adm. Michael Wosje, the landing was his 1,000th time piloting a plane onto ...