Key Points and Summary - China's "carrier-killer" missile strategy relies on three key land-based systems. The DF-21D is the original, a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) with a maneuverable ...

Key Points and Summary - China fields a large and growing mix of anti-ship ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic weapons designed to hold U.S. aircraft carriers strike groups at risk. -The scary headlines ...

China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy carrier, two former US carrier officers say, a substantial combat limitation ...

USS Coral Sea during the Vietnam War in 1968 - Mpi/Getty Images It's hard to understate just how much the aircraft carrier has changed the face of naval warfare, as well as global geopolitical power ...

Washington — The Pentagon said Friday that the U.S. is sending an aircraft carrier strike group to the waters off Latin America, an escalation that will dramatically increase the number of service ...

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, billed by the US Navy as “the most capable, adaptable, and lethal combat platform in the world,” is being sent to the Caribbean as the Trump administration ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is the U.S. Navy’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier. The vessel can carry more than 4,500 crew members and measures 1,092 feet long, just over the length of ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s administration escalated a U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean on Friday by announcing the deployment of the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deployed a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and its complement of guided missile destroyers to the South American coast Friday, according to his top spokesperson.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military will send an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower in a region where the Trump ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump dramatically escalated a U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean on Friday by deploying the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier group to Latin America, a show of force that ...

The Trump administration announced it will send an aircraft carrier towards Latin America in a major escalation of its war on drug cartels. NBC News’ Courtney Kube ...