Landing a plane on a small flight deck is far harder than on a large runway—and requires a much larger support crew.

-The aircraft is too heavy, its airframe and landing gear are not built to withstand violent carrier operations, and it lacks essential features like a tailhook. -Furthermore, in a future high-tech ...

The rapid buildup to the biggest, baddest aircraft carriers started with the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor.

The carrier, fresh from operations against Venezuela, will join the USS Abraham Lincoln as American military buildup in the region continues.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China showed its newest aircraft carrier launching military aircraft with an electromagnetic catapult system. Among the aircraft ...

USS Abraham Lincoln is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to support maritime security and stability in the ...

The Chinese state media claimed that the country's first domestically built aircraft carrier is now capable of conducting "round-the-clock operations" in complex weather conditions. The report claimed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China has made major technological progress with its aircraft carriers. But compared to the US Navy, China lacks the decades of ...

The pressure for carriers to quickly find and secure the right load is high. But too often, carriers get stuck in the daily grind of manually searching multiple load boards and entering the same load ...

Costly new American aircraft carriers could single-handedly win some wars… or be sent to the bottom of the sea by new drones and missiles. Follow 24/7 Wall St. on Google By Drew Wood Published Jul 12, ...