In the yellow jerseys are aircraft handlers who are responsible for taxiing planes around the chaotic flight deck. Catapult and arresting gear officers and plane directors also wear yellow.

When a tsunami ripped through Southeast Asia in 2004, the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and its carrier strike group provided ...

Aircraft carriers are floating airbases that can circumnavigate the globe without refueling, often house a few thousand personnel and dozens of fighter jets, and generally cost about $4 billion ...

Summary and Key Points: Russia’s only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, has become a symbol of the nation's struggling naval ambitions. Initially commissioned in 1991, this "heavy aircraft ...

A Chinese aircraft carrier entered an area near Japan's shores for the first time on Wednesday, leading Tokyo to convey its “serious concerns” to Beijing over China’s increasingly assertive ...

As tensions with China over Taiwan escalate, U.S. military planners are rethinking the role of aircraft carriers due to advancements in China’s anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) systems.

China flexed its muscles on Wednesday by sending an aircraft carrier into waters near Taiwan and Japan. The defense ministry of Japan on Wednesday reported the Chinese navy's movements in the ...

The Pentagon’s rare move to keep two Navy aircraft carriers in the Middle East over the past several weeks has now finished WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's rare move to keep two Navy aircraft ...

The Navy uses the C-variant of the F-35 specifically for takeoff and landing on aircraft carriers. These fifth-generation fighter jets, like the label suggests, excel on the next level of stealth ...

Italy is now one of the few nations to operate aircraft carriers. It is the only one in the European Union with a national Carrier Strike Group that has 5th-generation assets. Together with the U ...

None of the U.S. Navy's six Pacific-based aircraft carriers was underway in the Western Pacific Ocean this week after a second "flat-top" joined deterrence efforts in the Middle East. Meanwhile ...

A second United States aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, arrived in the Middle East on Wednesday escorted by guided missile destroyers, the U.S. Central Command said. The carrier ...