During World War II, the United States Navy commissioned 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers, making it the most numerous class ...

A shipyard in Virginia will begin building two aircraft carriers in a single dry dock concurrently for the first time.

CNS Liaoning, China's first operational aircraft carrier, was spotted in the Bohai Sea, off the coast of northeastern China.

The USS United States (CVA-58) was a highly ambitious post-WWII U.S. Navy supercarrier program designed to carry large bombers capable of delivering nuclear payloads.

A new date has not ... a 888-foot-long U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk 22.5 nautical miles off the Pensacola Pass in ...

China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor for a large surface warship, in the clearest sign yet Beijing is ...

U.S. researchers have concluded that China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor to power future aircraft carriers ...

“Unless China is developing nuclear-powered cruisers, which were pursued only by the United States and the Soviet ... China may begin producing two new carriers at once — one Type 003 like ...

Right now, only the United States and France have nuclear-powered ... including the design and construction of new carriers. China currently has three carriers, including the new Type 003 Fujian ...

“Nuclear-powered carriers would place China in the exclusive ranks of first-class naval powers, a group currently limited to the United States and France,” said Tong Zhao, a senior fellow at ...

There have long been rumours that China is planning to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, but the research by the ...