When the USS Hornet sunk in World War II, a tractor used to move aircraft went down too. Now a recovery mission is being ...

On October 26, 1942, the USS Hornet was mortally wounded in a Japanese onslaught during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. It carried 2,200 crew, 140 of whom were lost that day.

Imposing, flexible, able to sail fast and launch devastating air strikes at long range, aircraft carriers are the ultimate expression of national power. And many of the world’s best-armed ...

Mother Russia’s tugboat bait The Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s only aircraft carrier, was launched in 1985 and joined the fleet in 1991. Since then the 55,000-ton, fossil-fuel-powered flattop ...

An F-35C stealth fighter crash-landed on the deck of the carrier USS Carl Vinson before slipping off the ship into the South China Sea last month.

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman has suffered a series of mishaps during its deployment. Since December, the ship has lost three fighter jets and collided with a commercial vessel. These ...

The Pacific Theater of World War II was one of the most ferocious naval campaigns in history during which capital ships ...

A U.S. Navy F35C Lightning II combat jet conducting exercises in the South China Sea crashed while trying to land on the deck of an American aircraft carrier, injuring seven sailors, the Navy said ...

The accident happened on the second day of naval drills involving two U.S. Navy aircraft carrier groups in the contested waters.

The US Navy on Wednesday recovered from the bottom of the South China Sea the wreckage of a US military stealth fighter jet that crashed into the deck of a US aircraft carrier in January, the US ...

A U.S. Navy fighter jet attempting to land on an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea had a "landing mishap" on the ship's deck Monday that left seven sailors injured, including the pilot ...