Summary and Key Points: The Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier Shinano was an ill-fated warship, originally intended as a ...

The Sinking of an Aircraft Carrier At 6 p.m. on Nov. 28, 1944, Shinano departed Yokosuka Naval Base for her sea trials. At ...

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

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

On November 28, the U.S. boat Archerfish sank the largest ship ever sunk by a submarine, the newly minted 71,890-ton Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano. One model of the Kaiten suicide torpedo.

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese state-run media claimed earlier this month that one of the country's three aircraft carriers had tested a new type of fighter jet, likely to be the J-35, that has been described as ...

One of the greatest engineering feats in history, the modern U.S. nuclear carrier is a masterpiece of technology, and the flagship of the fleet. With RIMPAC, the world’s largest and most comprehensive ...

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 ...

The Gerald R. Ford class is the future aircraft carrier replacement class for Enterprise and Nimitz class aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy. The Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) was ordered from Newport ...

HMS Queen Elizabeth (pictured) and sister ship HMS Prince of Wales each cost more than £3bn Ambitious plans for the Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers - each of which cost more than £3bn ...