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Where are America’s aircraft carriers now?

Although the US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, only around half are deployed at any given ...
The Battleship Missouri Memorial this month will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the USS Missouri’s recommissioning with ...
A special ceremony and exhibit opening was held Sunday aboard the historic battleship at Pearl Harbor.
America's only active battleship ran aground in 1950 because of a misidentified buoy and a captain no one dared question.
The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp sails in the Philippine Sea on Aug. 26, 2018, during a passing exercise with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force. (MCS3 Taylor King/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy and ...
The San Diego-based destroyer USS Spruance attacked and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that President Donald Trump said had tried to evade its naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, ...
President Trump announced Sunday that a San Diego-Based warship fired on an Iranian cargo vessel that refused to honor the U.S. blockade. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the USS Spruance, a ...
The U.S. has seized the Iranian-flagged cargo ship M/V Touska which was violating the naval blockade, with the USS Spruance opening fire with its 5-inch MK45 gun and Marines boarding the vessel. The U ...
The US made good on its threat to board and seize any vessel defying its blockade of Iran’s ports on Sunday, with footage released by the military showing a guided-missile destroyer firing on the Iran ...
Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is now operating in U.S. Central Command, two defense officials confirmed to USNI News on Friday. Ford departed Split, Croatia, on April 2, after repairs ...