America’s $13 Billion Aircraft Carriers May Already Be Obsolete. Can These High-Tech Drones Save Them?
The world of aircraft carriers faces two vexing problems: a shortage of planes and a shortage of the carriers themselves.
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How to Sink an Aircraft Carrier: Tip Over in a Bad Storm?
The USS Gerald R. Ford, America’s newest supercarrier, epitomizes advanced naval engineering. At over 1,000 feet long, it ...
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Nuclear Aircraft Carriers in the U.S Navy: Most Expensive Warships Ever
What You Need to Know: Modern aircraft carriers, like the U.S. Navy's Gerald R. Ford-class, cost around $13 billion each due to their immense complexity and advanced technology. These vessels are ...
Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers would give China's growing navy new reach, and researchers say it's working on the reactor to power one
A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, like American carriers, would be a major jump for China, giving its navy a global reach.
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Cancel the Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier Now
To continue building legacy systems, like the aircraft carrier, when our enemies have developed cheaper ways of negating the ...
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The U.S. Navy's Aircraft Carrier Shortage Isn't What You'd Think
Between the aging Nimitz-class and the modern Ford-class carriers, America has 11 operational aircraft carriers in service. "Operational" might be a bit of a misnomer because there are some ...
Striking images show the F-35 jump-jet's first trials on a newly converted Japanese aircraft carrier
Japan's destroyer-turned-aircraft carrier recently concluded sea trials off California that put Lockheed's F-35B to the test.
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Japan inaugurates second aircraft carrier with landing of US F-35B
Tokyo’s first modern aircraft carrier – the Izumo – completed flight certification trials in 2021, also with F-35Bs from the USMC. That milestone marked the first time in over 75 years that ...