The United States Navy began to think about battlecruiser construction even before HMS Dreadnought ... two capital ships into aircraft carriers, and it chose Lexington and Saratoga.

Commissioned in 2019 and built by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance—a consortium including BAE Systems, Thales Group, and Babcock International—at a cost of nearly $3.9 billion, the HMS Prince of ...

HMS Queen Elizabeth has taken more than eight years to build and is the first of two new carriers for the Navy; a second, the Prince of Wales, will follow in two years' time.