If you only count ships built from the ground up ... a truly new aircraft carrier in over 40 years. At 1,106 feet long and ...

The Nimitz and its escorts — the guided-missile destroyers USS Gridley and USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee — pulled into Apra ...

the entire undercarriage of the A-10 would have to be redesigned and rebuilt to better withstand the trapping process that occurs when a plane lands on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.

Emerging from overhaul, Nimitz deployed in March 2003 and launched aircraft for combat operations over both Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2008, the aircraft carrier was overflown at low level while ...

It was seen as marking the dawn of aviation from aircraft carriers. He died days later ... from 820 Naval Air Squadron operating from her flight deck.” On 2 August 1917, Gp Capt Edwin Dunning ...

This will likely be the last deployment for the USS Nimitz — the oldest active U.S. aircraft carrier — before its planned decommissioning in 2026 after 50 years of service. The strike group ...