For decades, the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) was a visible symbol of American maritime power – and while for many years it served as an operational flattop, it later became a news ...

In 2005, the United States Navy conducted a series of naval war games to test how well its carrier strike groups could defend against submarines, an initiative to assess the range, resolution, and ...

Old soldiers (and old sailors for that matter) may fade away, but modern warships meet a crueler fate: they head to the scrap yard and are “broken up” after their years of service. It begins with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 2—SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — The decommissioned USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carrier entered the Brazos Santiago Pass ...

PORTAGE, MI — The Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum is now in posession of a 60,000-pound piece of history that for decades helped secure the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), while the carrier was in port.

No Cold War carriers have been preserved as museums, and it is disappointing that CV-63 or CV-67 couldn’t be saved from the scrappers. Efforts to preserve the ships as floating museums failed to gain ...

A former U.S. Navy supercarrier and the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier in existence is heading south to Texas. But it's not coming to join Battleship Texas; when this one arrives, it ...