Aircraft carriers are a key component of the U.S. Navy, supporting aerial attacks, security missions, and disaster responses by offering a launch and landing zone for dozens of aircraft while out ...

Not all aircraft carriers launch planes the same way. Some use steam or electromagnetic catapults to "fling" aircraft into the air. Others use a ski jump: a simple upward-curved ramp that lets ...

A US Navy aircraft carrier deployed to the Red Sea lost a $60 million fighter jet on Monday. The aircraft fell overboard after a move crew "lost control" of the jet, the Navy said. It's the second ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier to remain in the Middle East for a second ...

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 ...

Today used for advertising, blimp airships once played a vital role in World War II by hunting German U-boats over the Atlantic. In 1942, faced with escalating submarine threats and limited options, ...

The fighter jet slipped off the hangar deck of the aircraft carrier, deployed to the Middle East, as sailors were towing the aircraft into place in the hangar bay, the Navy said. Two U.S ...

A multi-million-dollar US warplane fell off the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier into the Red Sea on Monday in an accident that injured one sailor, the Navy said. A tractor that was towing the ...

WASHINGTON — A multi-million-dollar US warplane fell off the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier into the Red Sea on Monday in an accident that injured one sailor, the Navy said. A tractor that was ...