Like the other carriers on this list, the Yorktown-class aircraft carriers relied predominantly on their fleet of aircraft rather than their own physical armaments. Still, these vessels were armed ...

U.S. Yorktown Class Arguably the most successful ... the Yorktowns were the model for all future U.S. carrier designs. Relatively large, fast, very sea worthy vessels with excellent protection and ...

is in patrol over the aircraft carrier U.S.S. YORKTOWN (CV-5). Fate has a surprise for Vejtasa and his rear gunner, Radioman 3rd Class Frank B Wood, as they are forced to face off in battle ...

Logan McGraw and Bennett Haas set up in front of the Battlefield goalie (photo by Dave McGraw) The Yorktown High School club ice-hockey team has lost two of its last three matches, sandwiched ...

America’s newest aircraft carrier is the USS Gerald R. Ford, the only non- Nimitz class ship in the fleet and the first of ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true ...

The Ford-class is pricey, but the Navy can’t just throw away its ability to launch fighter jets from the sea. The journey of the U.S. Navy’s Ford-class aircraft carriers has not been smooth sailing.

U.S. carriers were in Thailand, Japan and the Eastern Pacific this week, while a carrier from France is set to visit the ...

The Kennedy namesake will live on in the future Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. PCU Kennedy, the second-in-class ship, is scheduled to be commissioned in 2025, three years behind ...