Both aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships work in tandem often, and despite them looking similar, they both operate ...

Currently the Japanese Navy has 155 combat and support ships. There are four helicopter carriers, 24 submarines, 36 destroyers, six Mogami class frigates, 21 mine warfare ships, six 240 ton patrol ...

It’s one of the most dangerous places in the world—the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. As part of becoming a sailor for a ...

Authorized in 1948, the flush-deck design aimed to launch and recover oversized aircraft ... Much more recently, the U.S.

The $1 billion carrier JS Kaga belongs to Japan, which is adding fixed-wing aircraft to some of its ships for the first time ...

The Navy had never built an aircraft carrier that had a nuclear reactor as its power source. Moreover, the Navy had to make the design of the flight deck itself fundamentally different from its ...

China is relatively new to replenishment ships and tends to build new vessels. The US Navy has 100 years of experience and ...

China has built a new aircraft carrier in less than six months, raising fears that its enormous civilian industrial might is ...

The Gray Eagle STOL was transported onto the Dokdo disassembled a week earlier and, after a week of testing, performed the ...

Equipped with a Vertical Launch System, 57mm gun, SeaRAM missile defense, and launch deck for unmanned aerial vehicles, the ...

A model of the fixed-wing-capable CVX aircraft carrier design from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), displayed ... in operating ...

A CATOBAR capable J-15 fighter can operate from both the STOBAR-configured Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers with their ...