USS John F. Kennedy and USS Enterprise carrier deliveries delayed due to Advanced Arresting Gear issues and supply chain ...

The future USS John F. Kennedy was scheduled to join the fleet this month but now isn’t on track for delivery until March ...

The article highlights the top five U.S. aircraft carriers based on technical specifications and historical significance.

The Navy has begun the process of retiring its oldest aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, which was commissioned in 1975. Huntington Ingalls Inc. has received an $18.4 million contract from U.S ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Nimitz (CVN-68), the lead ship of the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, symbolizes a pivotal era in U.S. Navy history. Commissioned in 1975, it ...

More: Propulsion problems bring USS Nimitz home after 3 days at sea. The 1975-commissioned Nimitz is powered by two nuclear reactors that can propel the ship at more than 34 mph, according to the ...

The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier is headed home to Bremerton, the Pentagon has confirmed. ... The 1975-commissioned Nimitz is due to be decommissioned in 2025, ...

Wikipedia Commons Launched just over a year before the bicentennial of the United States in 1975, the USS Nimitz has been diagnosed with mechanical problems that will keep it sidelined for at ...

Building on the lessons of USS Enterprise, the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier before it, the Nimitz was commissioned in May 1975 and was the first of 10 such vessels in a new class of ...

I was impressed the very first time I saw the USS Nimitz, in October 1986. There was a tiny bit of rust on the hull, but overall it was clean. It didn’t have diesel stains smeared across its ...

The Nimitz, which entered service in 1975, is the oldest aircraft carrier in active serv­ice with any of the world’s navies. At any given time the massive ship can have anywhere from 5,000 to ...