America’s newest aircraft carrier is the USS Gerald R. Ford, the only non- Nimitz class ship in the fleet and the first of ...

Iran has finally shown a drone taking off and landing on – in the latter case with the help of arresting gear – the deck of ...

The presence of Su-33 aircraft over the Norwegian and Barents Seas reveals more about the state of the Russian navy than the ...

Although his name would be overshadowed by the success of the Wright Brothers, Eugene B. Ely performed the first aircraft launch off a seafaring vessel in November 1910. Ely used a wooden platform ...

U.S. carriers were in Thailand, Japan and the Eastern Pacific this week, while a carrier from France is set to visit the ...

Robbins and his crew called the plan “Operation Pinwheel” because of the circular motion the planes would create when pushing the massive carrier in its desired direction.

The Navy’s first unmanned tanker is set to come to an aircraft carrier in 2026, according to the commander of Naval Air ...

Flight deck operations on an aircraft carrier have been compared to a ballet. Anyone who is afforded the opportunity to observe flight deck operations on an aircraft carrier will instantly notice ...

In an earlier analysis from December, Sutton pointed out that “The fact that the superstructure spans the original deck means that a traditional aircraft carrier layout is not possible.” ...