During a 1999 NATO exercise, the Dutch Walrus-class diesel-electric submarine HNLMS Walrus achieved a remarkable feat by ...

Sinking a modern American aircraft carrier is an incredibly difficult task due to its formidable, multi-layered defense ...

These 10 U.S. Navy aircraft carriers are proof that no ship is unsinkable, no matter how big. Here's where they're currently resting.

The HMS Endeavour is one of the most legendary ships of all time. The location of its wreck remained a complete mystery for ...

A decommissioned aircraft carrier from the 1960s that has been floating offshore for three months since Turkey refused it entry to be scrapped there will be sunk in the Atlantic Ocean in waters ...

Sinking an aircraft carrier is no easy task – not even when aircraft carriers were relatively simple, as demonstrated in World War II’s Pacific theater. But an aircraft carrier can break.

Retropolis On a sunken WWII aircraft carrier, experts find a mural, wrecked planes and a station wagon. Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the ...

If a small diesel-powered sub that cost about $100 million—or approximately the cost of two F-18 Super Hornet aircraft out of the dozens on board a U.S. aircraft carrier—could sink a $6 ...

New footage from the Ocean Exploration Trust nonprofit released over the weekend is the first visual survey of the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi since its sinking in 1942’s Battle of Midway.

During World War II, aircraft carriers emerged as some of the most important military assets, fundamentally changing how war would be waged for decades to come. Aircraft carriers allowed for the ...

Besides sinking the Akagi, the Kaga and two other Japanese aircraft carriers, U.S. forces shot down more than 250 Japanese airplanes. More than 3,000 Japanese servicemen died.