An advanced United States fighter jet has completed trials with a Japanese helicopter carrier undergoing conversion into a light aircraft carrier, it was announced on Thursday. The Japanese navy, ...

There are plenty of dangerous jobs in the United States military, and that's kind of the point. Those who serve in uniform put their lives on the line all the time, but few are as at risk as the ...

Ely used a wooden platform constructed over the United States' Birmingham cruiser to develop the basis of the aircraft carrier ... for a perfect takeoff or landing, and Ely's efforts were far ...

First is the USS Langley (CV-1), the Navy's first aircraft carrier, notable for pioneering naval aviation milestones like the first ship-based aircraft takeoff and landing.

"With the landing deck sometimes pitching by as much as 30 feet with the waves, carrier landings are often hard enough to seriously damage ordinary aircraft, and things only get worse at night or ...

has developed a system of support for aircraft landing on the deck of aircraft carriers, which will reduce the wear and tear of braking cables and improve safety of the landing process.

China has sent another aircraft carrier into the wider western Pacific Ocean following its first operation featuring two "flattop" warships last month, according to a report on Monday. A fighter ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the Indo-Pacific region, with the locations of 10 carriers publicly available.

Launching aircraft is one function of an aircraft carrier. Landing aircraft is another. Aircraft land on aircraft carriers with a tailhook, which catches wires laid down along the flight deck.

The Nimitz Class aircraft carrier continues to be the centerpiece of the forces necessary for operating forward. In times of crisis, the first question leaders ask in a crisis is: “Where are the ...

New generation of navy officers aboard PLA’s first aircraft carrier more confident in using the foreign language to warn off planes and vessels.

The tempo of operations on the aircraft ... at night. F-18 jets are carrying out sorties all day and night to try to stop Houthi attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea Up in the carrier's ...