The USS Lexington, originally built as a battlecruiser and later converted into a fleet carrier, became a pivotal asset for ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...