For several weeks now, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has been on station in the Gulf of Oman off the coast of Iran. Her air wing has flown continuous surveillance and ...

The rapid buildup to the biggest, baddest aircraft carriers started with the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor.

The carrier, fresh from operations against Venezuela, will join the USS Abraham Lincoln as American military buildup in the region continues.

The move comes while talks with Tehran are still happening. It shows that the United States is ready to use military force if the negotiations fail.

USS Abraham Lincoln is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to support maritime security and stability in the ...

Although the US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, only around half are deployed at any given time—with the rest in port or undergoing maintenance.

The US Navy’s top officer previously cautioned that extending the deployment of the aircraft ...

The world's largest and most expensive aircraft carrier has arrived in the Caribbean. U.S. Southern Command announced Sunday that the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group had made its way into the ...

The Pentagon plans to send the second aircraft carrier strike group of the U.S. Navy to the Middle East. This is reported by ...

It remains unclear if the vessel will shift the regional balance of power or end up mostly idle at its base. Read more at ...

Indonesia is embarking on a plan to make toll roads across the country into emergency runways for its fighter jets, giving it the equivalent of multiple aircraft carriers across the vast archipelago.

Operation Hailstone, the two-day carrier assault launched 82 years ago this week, demolished Japan's largest overseas naval installation and sent more than 40 ships beneath the waves.