Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 12 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of February 14.

We'll be considering the relative size of different types of warships too, from the biggest aircraft carriers ever built, to the largest ships that slide beneath the waves. On land, World War I ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

The decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy embarked on its ... who had served as a naval officer during World War II. After his motor torpedo boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese ...

Beijing is developing a fourth carrier and is determined to meet or exceed the U.S. Navy’s abilities in the near future. When it comes to aircraft carriers, the U.S. Navy easily dominates with eleven ...

The ex-aircraft ... group of carriers to be powered by fossil fuels, which were replaced by the Navy's Nimitz-class nuclear-powered flattops. The name honored the president slain five years before, ...

said they targeted the USS Harry S Truman and other "warships" with drones and cruise missiles. "The American aircraft carrier was forced to leave the theater of operations," the rebels' statement ...

For example, the Navy's 11 aircraft carriers are named after significant ... The advent of nuclear-powered and guided-missile warships following World War II also led to significant changes ...

There are five aircraft carrier museums in the United States. Four of them are Essex-class carriers, while the fifth is a Midway-class flattop. But all five ships date back to the World War II era.

The PLAN is the world's largest navy, which operated 234 warships as of June 2024. The U.S. Navy operated 219, 11 of which are aircraft carriers. The PLAN has three carriers as of January 2025 and ...