Instead of having three aircraft carriers in service, the new vessel will replace the aging INS Vikramaditya. India is ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

Designers and crew like to give their aircraft nicknames—very often, the nickname that sticks is from an attribute of the ...

Summary: In an innovative operation during World ... Cold War spawned a lot of weird and interesting ideas. A 1973 study looked at launching tiny jet fighters from airborne aircraft carriers.

Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...

For their actions during World War II, Japanese war criminals are tried for their crimes inside the defeated country.

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

The United States Navy maintains an edge when it comes to sheer numerical superiority over most nations. When you have ...

Analysts with RAND Corp. argue the US Navy needs drone aircraft carriers and envision a whole new strike group to surround ...

World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war ...