Few people believed it could be done. In the early 1960s, the U.S. Navy faced a growing logistics problem as aircraft carriers were deployed farther from supply bases than ever before. Existing ...
Late in the day, I returned to the COD and experienced for the first time taking off from the deck of a carrier, propelled violently toward the bow, and hopefully over the rolling seas below, by the ...
While trying to keep his options on Iran open, President Donald Trump may be seeing them narrow. After the third round of ...
US President Donald Trump has intensified pressure on Tehran, deploying an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf and a second to the Mediterranean.
The Trump administration has deployed two aircraft carriers to the Middle East as tensions between Tehran and Washington ...
The Boeing 777’s 12-tire main landing gear may seem excessive at first glance, but it’s a highly calculated engineering decision. It allows the aircraft to carry immense loads, operate from a wide ...
US President Donald Trump has told advisers that if diplomacy or any initial targeted US attack does not lead Iran to give in to his demands that it give up its nuclear program, he will consider a ...
The difficulty of striking Iran is clear from America’s unprecedented buildup. Experts say half of the US air force is now at ...
The low-cost airline has a new ‘class’ seat option – but is it a true upgrade, or a meaningless money-spinner? As a ...
One nation stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of its carrier capabilities—though another is quickly catching up. Aircraft carriers are unique symbols of a nation’s military might. The ...
The USS Ford Carrier Strike Group has been notified that they are leaving the Caribbean and headed to the Middle East, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the decision. The Ford will join ...
Charlie D'Agata is CBS News' senior national security correspondent. He was previously a senior foreign correspondent and has spent more than two decades covering international news for CBS. The USS ...