The HMS Queen Elizabeth, the biggest ship ever built for the British navy, sailed into its homeport for the first time Wednesday as tens of thousands jammed the harbor to welcome it. The £3 billion ($3.9 billion) ship arrived at Portsmouth Naval Base in southern ...
Britain's new and only aircraft carrier — the largest and most powerful ship ever built for the Royal Navy — set off for its first sea trial in Scotland on Monday. HMS Queen Elizabeth, a 280-meter (919-foot), 65,000-ton vessel, left the dock at the port ...
A group of Chinese warships led by its sole aircraft carrier is testing weapons and equipment in exercises this week in the South China Sea that are going to plan, China's foreign ministry said Wednesday. Exercises by the ships, in particular the aircraft carrier Liaoning, ...
China's sole aircraft carrier conducted drills in the South China Sea, the navy said, days after neighboring Taiwan said the carrier and accompanying ships had passed 90 nautical miles south of the island amid renewed tension between the two sides. The Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier ...
Russia's defense ministry said Monday a Sukhoi jet fell into the sea after a malfunction as it tried to land on the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier following a bombing raid in Syria. It was the second such crash involving Russia's lone carrier in a month, ...
A Russian fighter jet based on an aircraft carrier currently near Syria's shores has crashed on a training mission, but its pilot bailed out safely, the Defense Ministry said Monday. The ministry said the crash of the MiG-29K fighter will not affect the operations of ...
France will deploy an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf to assist the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. French President Francois Hollande announced his decision Thursday at the inauguration of the country's new ultra-secure defense ministry building in Paris. He didn't ...
The Maritime Self-Defense Force commissions its largest-ever helicopter carrier as officials deny that the massive vessel could be used as a conventional aircraft carrier or represents a prototype for one in the future.
Last month India became the fifth nation with the capability to design and build its own aircraft carrier. Even so, India's indigenous naval achievements face challenges.
