Key Points and Summary – Indonesia is moving to acquire Italy’s retired aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi, approving a $450 million loan tied to the...
Key Points and Summary – USS Nimitz (CVN-68), namesake of the Nimitz-class and the world’s oldest active carrier, has served since 1975—from the Gulf...
Space Aircraft Carrier? Key Points and Summary – SpaceWERX has tapped Seattle startup Gravitics to develop an “orbital carrier”—a pre-positioned, in-space launch pad that...
Key Points and Summary – USS Independence (CV-62), the fourth Forrestal-class supercarrier, served from 1959–1998 across Cold War flashpoints and the post-Cold War Gulf....
Key Points and Summary – At the Cold War’s end, the Soviet Union laid down Ulyanovsk (Project 1143.7), its first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier aimed...
Key Points and Summary – Admiral Kuznetsov’s limbo makes a strategic point: Russia doesn’t need carriers. Its Arctic and Pacific “bastion” missions—sea denial, deterrence,...
Key Points and Summary – USS Nimitz (CVN-68), first of the Nimitz-class supercarriers, is concluding a 50-year career that spanned the Cold War, Eagle...
Key Points and Summary – USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is a Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered carrier homeported in San Diego and flagship of Carrier Strike Group...
Key Points and Summary – USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) is a Nimitz-class supercarrier commissioned in 1995 and now undergoing a Refueling and Complex...