On this day in aviation history, 80 years ago (December 3, 1945), the first jet takeoff and landing aboard an aircraft carrier took place. Lieutenant-Commander Eric Melrose Brown, the Chief Naval Test ...

It has become fashionable to argue that aircraft carriers are becoming obsolete. Critics question their value in an era of technological advancement, when new capabilities such as advanced autonomous ...

The backbone of a powerful navy is the almighty aircraft carrier. While battleships and destroyers might be armed with fancy cannons and missile launchers, aircraft carriers carry deadly fighter jets ...

The world's largest and most expensive aircraft carrier has arrived in the Caribbean. U.S. Southern Command announced Sunday that the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group had made its way into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: PH2 Inks - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. In the aftermath of World War I, the U.S. Navy took a bold step by converting ...

Article Summary - China’s long-range DF-21D and DF-26 “carrier-killer” missiles have fueled claims that U.S. aircraft carriers are obsolete, forcing them thousands of miles offshore and seemingly out ...