The Nimitz has been present in nearly all of the U.S. Navy's major operations during its lifetime, including both Iraq wars ...

Despite advances in military technology, the Navy's most decorated aircraft carrier was at the Battle of Midway during WWII and other conflicts of the era.

On Oct. 26, 1942, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Hornet was sunk during pitched fighting in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Strapped to the deck of the carrier was a farming tractor, ...

Conceptualized in 1939, two years before Nazi Germany betrayed their Soviet “ally,” the Soviet Navy was developing Project Kostromitinov. This Soviet aircraft carrier was a truly ambitious project—and ...

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor gravely damaged the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet's strength, but fortunately, no American aircraft carriers were sunk in the attack. As a result, when the United States ...

In the movie “Top Gun,” the lead character and naval aviator “Maverick” famously says, “I feel the need… the need for speed.” While that might have passed when he was flying the 1,800+ mile range F-14 ...