Final preparations are underway at Newport News Shipbuilding to prepare for the departure of the longest — and quite possibly one of the most long lived and ...

The USS Enterprise (CVN 65) was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, renowned for its versatility, combat ...

USS Yorktown (CV-5)—an aircraft carrier commissioned in September 1937 and sunk in October 1942—was equipped with 24 Oerlikon ...

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan has begun ... Two additional Ford-class carriers, the future USS Enterprise and USS Dorris Miller are under construction at Newport News.

Naval News has since clarified that no such plans exist to rename the upcoming aircraft carrier and that the USS Enterprise remains the intended name for the next Ford-class ship.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A second U.S. aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast ... The operation of the USS Carl Vinson and its strike group in the Arabian Sea comes as suspected ...

In 2013, Northrup Grumman's X-47B demonstrator was launched from and landed on the deck of the USS ... carrier, relying on its world-class drone industry to provide the aircraft. Two drone models ...

A US aircraft ... Ford Super Deluxe model was a common vehicle used by both Army and Navy officers on shore, but they were rarely or never carried at sea. Even a large carrier like the Yorktown ...

ABOARD THE USS GERALD R. FORD — Two F-18 fighter jets roared above the USS Gerald R. Ford, flying past the aircraft carrier in the ... but a similar model developed by Raytheon for the Army ...

The U.S. Navy is set to launch it next aircraft carrier, CVN 80, later this year. In a change from the planned USS Enterprise name, the vessel will now be named after the Senior Advisor to the ...

Aircraft carriers have very limited hangar space. Keeping a car on board meant room for fewer fighter planes. Why was a 1940–41 Ford Super Deluxe ‘Woody’ on a WWII aircraft carrier? The mystery ...