It has become fashionable to argue that aircraft carriers are becoming obsolete. Critics question their value in an era of technological advancement, when new capabilities such as advanced autonomous ...

Aircraft carriers have always been relatively large ships, but today's carriers are orders of magnitude more massive than the ones that helped the Allies win World War II. In fact, the USS Gerald R.

An aircraft carrier is an enormous and imposing vessel. They also represent gigantic investments in terms of not only money but in development time and other resources. The last thing a nation would ...