Service: US Navy Propulsion: 2x Allison T56-A-425 turboprop engines Max Speed: 343 knots Range: 1,000 nm Crew: Four The C-2A Greyhound is the primary at-sea delivery aircraft for the US Navy to ...

5 Reasons U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are More Vulnerable Than Ever This essay highlights the increasing vulnerabilities of aircraft carriers in modern warfare. With advancements in technology such as ...

Medium Aircraft Carriers: The Warship Idea That Just Won't 'Sink' At the height of the Cold War, U.S. Navy planners introduced the concept of the CVV—medium-sized aircraft carriers designed to ...

The Gerald R. Ford class is the future aircraft carrier replacement class for Enterprise and Nimitz class aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy. The Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) was ordered from Newport ...

One of the greatest engineering feats in history, the modern U.S. nuclear carrier is a masterpiece of technology, and the flagship of the fleet. With RIMPAC, the world’s largest and most comprehensive ...

China has developed land-based anti-ship missiles to force carriers to operate so far from targets that manned aircraft might become less useful than unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs ...

The aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy are huge vessels, equivalent of a roaming city at sea. More than that, they're mobile ...

Moreover, aircraft operating from U.S. carriers use steam catapults – or electromagnetic catapults in the case of the new USS Gerald R. Ford – that propel an aircraft to 200 miles per hour in ...

Ahead of the 12th anniversary of the commissioning of China's first aircraft carrier, which falls on Wednesday, all three Chinese aircraft carriers reportedly carried out exercises or tests over ...

Aircraft carriers from China and the United States were operating in the Pacific Ocean this week. An American aircraft carrier left the West Coast as it shifted its home port to Japan, joining the ...

The United States has one of its six West Coast-based aircraft carriers operating in the Western Pacific Ocean again following a two-month surge deployment in the Middle East. Newsweek's weekly ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Chinese aircraft carrier entered an area near Japan’s shores for the first time on Wednesday, leading Tokyo to convey its “serious concerns” to Beijing over China’s ...