Many now cite new weapons, such as the Chinese DF-21 or DF-26 anti-ship missile reportedly able to travel up to 900 miles, as missiles likely to change manner in which carriers will need to function.

Aircraft carriers can use their mobility to take advantage of the difference between seers (surveillance systems) and shooters (stand-off weapon systems). Orbital bombardment systems (nicknamed ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier is now on its first deployment, five years after it was commissioned into service and 15 years after its naming.

The aircraft carrier, now just over one hundred years old, is one of the most resilient weapons of the modern era. More than a thousand feet long, nuclear-powered, and home to more than seventy ...

US aircraft carriers still rule the seas, but Russia and China both have plans to change that A Chinese DF-21D missile is driven past an image of the Great Wall of China, in Beijing's Tiananmen ...

These days, the mention of 3D-printed weapons conjures up visions of people printing AK-47s in their garages (ok, that might just be me). But a recent ...

The aircraft carrier is one of the most powerful weapons of the modern age. It also has had an unusually long reign as the dominant platform at sea, dating back to the start of World War II. But ...

Last week, U.S. Navy officials stated to a Japanese media that the Chinese are moving closer to deploying long-range missiles capable of targeting U.S. aircraft carriers. Here's how they work.

Sailors assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford's (CVN 78) weapons department move MK-82 500-pound class inert bombs onto one of Ford's Advanced Weapons Elevators, May 30, 2020. (U.S. Navy photo/Ryan Seelbach) ...

The US Navy's 10 Nimitz-class flat-top aircraft carriers are the envy of the world, and yet the Navy has a newer, more powerful, and more advanced carrier in the works: the Ford-class. Named after ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is over the halfway mark in certifying the new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford’s 11 advanced weapons elevators, which have been at the center of an ongoing ...