Only two nations have ever destroyed a U.S. aircraft carrier. Japan destroyed several during World War II, while Germany sank ...

Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is one of the United States Navy’s most important – and most difficult – operational tasks. As the U.S. Navy continues to prepare itself to address future ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

the losses in terms of men and materiel would be nowhere near the losses if an aircraft carrier were severely damaged or even sunk. Military planners and strategists can no longer ignore the ...

NISHINOOMOTE, Kagoshima Prefecture--The central government on June 15 started a search for human remains among the wreckage of a sunken ... The aircraft appears to be a Type 97 carrier-based ...

The decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy embarked on its ... After his motor torpedo boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, he famously helped save his men from the water ...