Summary and Key Points: National security analyst Stephen Silver evaluates the operational status of the USS Gerald R. Ford ...

A U.S. Navy ship named for Connecticut Medal of Honor recipient Harvey C. Barnum Jr is to be commissioned in April.

CVN-68 began a homeport shift to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., as part of a long-planned process for the carrier’s ...

The USS Nimitz will remain active through early 2027, the Navy confirmed. It had been scheduled to begin the decommissioning process this year.

Instead of decommissioning this year, Breaking Defense reports that the U.S. Navy’s oldest commissioned aircraft carrier will ...

The Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier is sailing to Norfolk, Va., ahead of its planned decommissioning later this year, the ...

The USS Nimitz, after departing Bremerton and deploying to the U.S. Southern Command, will remain active longer than initially scheduled.

The United States has 11 aircraft carriers spread across the world, but four of them are in various stages of maintenance.

The USS Gerald R. Ford is not likely to return home until at least May, about 11 months after the carrier left Naval Station Norfolk, a top Navy official told the Senate Armed Services Committee last ...

The Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier will remain in the fleet 10 months longer than expected, according to a Friday contract announcement from the service. USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is now scheduled for ...

USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

The fire occurred Thursday in the aircraft carrier's main laundry room and was not combat related, the Navy said.