Aircraft carriers became operational in the early 1920s and revolutionized naval strategy. They store, launch, recover, and service aircraft at sea, enabling nations to project airpower far from home ...

Buoyed by more than $6.1 billion in 2013 block-buy contracts for destroyers from both Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Pentagon destroyer and cruiser expenses ...

The high seas were dangerous places during World War II, an unforgiving expanse where nations vied for supremacy, just as they fought each other on land and in the skies. Military ships of all types ...

China's new Type 055 cruiser is its most modern and powerful surface combatant. The ship China labels as a destroyer is so large it compares more to US cruisers. China is building these ships fast ...

In August, the U.S. Navy struck one of its most powerful ships from the rolls of active duty, heading for a well-deserved retirement. USS Mobile Bay joined the fleet in 1987, and the service ...

USS President Jackson under attack during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. In the center background, smoke rises after an Japanese plane crashed into the superstructure of USS San Francisco. (U.S.