On the morning of December 7, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu participated in the launching ... originally thought prior to the ...

A Chinese aircraft carrier group sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, Taiwan's defence minister said, a day after ...

In a technical advance off San Diego, a U.S. Navy F-35B strike fighter landed on a Japanese aircraft carrier for the first ...

The USS George Washington (CVN-73), a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, underwent a Refueling and Complex ...

On December 7 th, 1941, ten Japanese Nakajima B5N2 “Kate” torpedo bombers from the aircraft carriers Kaga and Hiryu flew at an altitude of 9,800 feet and deployed 797-kilogram bombs against ...

And on their flight decks the four carriers were recovering the aircraft returning from the Midway strike. Meanwhile, Spruance s TF 16 airstrikes had lifted off at about 7:00 a.m., 116 fighters, dive ...

After earning his wings, he was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga ... as to whose bomb hit and sank the Hiryu ...

The Nimitz Class aircraft carrier continues to be the centerpiece of the forces necessary for operating forward. In times of crisis, the first question leaders ask in a crisis is: “Where are the ...

the Yorktowns were the model for all future U.S. carrier designs. Relatively large, fast, very sea worthy vessels with excellent protection and large aircraft complements, they played an enormous part ...

China has developed land-based anti-ship missiles to force carriers to operate so far from targets that manned aircraft might become less useful than unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs ...

Aircraft carriers from China and the United States were operating in the Pacific Ocean this week. An American aircraft carrier left the West Coast as it shifted its home port to Japan, joining the ...

Three U.S. aircraft carriers were underway in the Pacific Ocean this week, with one beginning a voyage to Japan as it shifts its home port from the West Coast to the Asian nation, joining U.S ...