Two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, to be constructed "in the years ahead," will carry the names of former President Bill ...

Ten vessels encompass the U.S. Navy's fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. The Kennedy had been out of service for the ...

On a sleepy Sunday morning in 1941, the Hawaiian island of Oahu couldn’t have looked anymore idyllic. Even with the fairly recent arrival of the United States Pacific Fleet which had deployed to the ...

US airfields in the Pacific are extremely vulnerable to China's advanced air force and missile capabilities, creating a high ...

Aircraft carriers are the premiere warships used by blue water navies around the world, and it's been that way since World War II. After the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor on ...

Like the Pearl Harbor operation, the Midway operation was the brain ... but the Aleutians operation consumed too many resources for a proper diversion (90 carrier aircraft, a quarter of the ...

The Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

While the White House publicized the decision, the responsibility and authority to name ships lies squarely in the hands of ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...