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Where are America’s aircraft carriers now?

Although the US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, only around half are deployed at any given ...
At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a ...
Between December 2024 and March 2025, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Truman/CVN-75 lost three F-18 aircraft and collided with a cargo ship near the Suez Canal. During this period, one of its escorts, ...
Aircraft carriers are supposed to project power and resilience, yet naval history is littered with ships that instead ...
Luxury private carrier JSX is bringing service to Las Vegas and Scottsdale from historic Santa Monica Airport, using the ...
Japanese soldiers were beating a POW to the brink of death... that is until Richard Antrim stepped forward and offered to ...
The campaign began on June 3 and 4, 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched air attacks against the U.S. naval base at Dutch ...
The war veteran, who survived a WWII plane crash, was believed to have been the longest-living former MP in the UK ...
The world's first drone mothership, Jui Tian, took to the skies for its first-ever flight on December 11th, 2025, in the Pucheng region of Shaanxi province in China. The massive remotely piloted jet ...
China plans to field a force of nine aircraft carriers by 2035, according to a Defense Department report on Beijing’s military power released on Tuesday. The U.S. report says that the People’s ...
Turkey is extending the length of its aircraft carrier to 984 feet, its president said on Saturday. It would be one of NATO's longest ships, outclassing vessels such as France's aircraft carrier.
Five people were killed and one person was missing after a Mexican military aircraft carrying a burn victim crashed into Galveston Bay Monday afternoon, prompting a multi-agency rescue effort, ...