4 Points You Need to Know: Russia's Kirov-class battlecruiser and its only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, have become national embarrassments due to their outdated and inefficient designs.

Aircraft Carriers: A Legacy System That’s Not Worth the Cost. America’s preferred warship of the day, the battleship, had been denied to the Americans in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor, where the ...

Sometimes diplomacy forces the repurposing of warships. In 1916, the United States Navy ordered the Lexington-class battlecruisers. However, the First World War and its need for smaller warships ...

Russian navy nuclear-powered battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy near St. Petersburg in July 2017. Igor Russak/NurPhoto/Getty Images 2023-05-24T18:39:13Z ...

A battlecruiser might have as many as 250 missile silos, or the equivalent of 250,000 pounds of high explosives. That’s about a day’s worth of carrier flight operations. A major complication ...

A carrier air group costs upwards of $6 billion, and requires replacement more than once over the course of a carrier's career. The USS Gerald R. Ford also requires a crew of over 4000, probably ...

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford is slated to deploy next week to the 6th Fleet area of operations, moving a third ...

Over the past 70 years, the carrier has become today’s battleship — a shore bombardment weapon. It’s powerful, but no longer decisive.

The USS Nimitz carrier strike group expedites Middle East deployment as the United States shifts military resources in ...

As the Iran-Israel conflict intensifies, the U.S. deploys the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier along with support tankers to ...

The U.S. Navy’s first seaplane carrier, the USS Mississippi, was converted from a battleship in 1913. Mississippi ’s fledgling seaplanes saw action during the American occupation of Veracruz ...