Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

At over 1,000 feet long, it defies assumptions of instability, with a knifelike hull and starboard superstructure. -Yet, aircraft carriers are among the most stable vessels due to careful balance ...

The Nimitz and her namesake class of flat-top aircraft carriers have been a stable to America's naval fleet for fifty years, ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Ford-class aircraft carriers are part of an effort to replace ... such as an electromagnetic catapult for launching planes, a hull that reduces drag, and increased automation.

The Chinese navy, which is the largest in the world by hull count, launched its first ... advanced catapult system that—similar to an aircraft carrier—supports the flight operations of fixed ...