The USS America, a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was deliberately sunk in 2005 during a “SinkEx” live-fire exercise to study its survivability in combat. -Commissioned in 1965, the ...

Modern carriers may appear impossible, but they’re engineered marvels, stable and meticulously designed for function. Few things demonstrate the marvel of human engineering like a modern ...

But a modern, nuclear-powered, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier may carry up to 6,000 sailors. That number includes pilots, technicians, air traffic and deck personnel directly involved in flight ...

Fielding J-20s aboard modern carriers, assuming China actually intends to do so, would certainly be a step toward power parity for China, a country the Pentagon now considers its "number one ...

A Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson on Friday called US reports claiming China is building a large nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "purely speculative," but cited China's national security ...