Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Navy's next Ford-class aircraft carrier started builder trials. USS John F. Kennedy is the second in class and expected to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. CVN-68 returned home to Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Wash., in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to Helicopter Sea Combat ...

USS Forrestal symbolized American naval power, but a catastrophic accident in 1967 exposed the dangers of life aboard a supercarrier. A single misfire ignited fuel and munitions on the flight deck, ...

Wars have long been weighed by their expenditure of “blood and treasure”—their human and financial costs. Indeed, Donald Trump has long used the phrase as a metric to judge the wisdom of deploying U.S ...

The USS Saratoga, a massive Forrestal-class supercarrier, was an exemplary warship throughout the Cold War, but its most daring feat occurred in 1985. After terrorists hijacked the Achille Lauro ...

Legislators must turn to the U.S. defense budget with a particular focus on industrial capacity. It’s an unnerving fact that U.S. industry is woefully unprepared for a war. The Navy has blown through ...

Sailors man the rails as the USS Abraham Lincoln passes North Island in January 2022. (File photo courtesy of the Navy) The USS Abraham Lincoln quietly departed from San Diego last week with the Navy ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, arrived in waters of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), the combatant command ...

The Chinese navy confirmed on Saturday that the country's most advanced aircraft carrier, CNS Fujian, will be homeported at a base in the contested South China Sea, where Beijing's territorial claims ...