A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier displaces approximately 100,000 long tons when fully loaded. Two nuclear reactors pour four steam turbines and four shafts, which produce 260,000 shaft horsepower.

The Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) pulled into Laem Chabang, Thailand, on Monday for a port visit after three weeks of ...

It will take three years of meeting recruiting goals to recover from the Navy’s current gaps-at sea, a service official said ...

The EMALS is an electromagnetic catapult that relies upon a linear induction motor, rather than a traditional steam piston, ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Hannah Kantner Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Kimberly Glanville, ...

SOUTH CHINA SEA - Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Landon Godeaux, of Lafayette, La., stands watch in the tower of ...

It is no secret that today's focus of the U.S. Navy is preparing for the possibility of conflict in the Pacific by 2027, and ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final journey to the scrapyard. The decommissioned vessel was the last conventionally powered flattop built by the US Navy. The Kennedy namesake ...