HMS Queen Elizabeth has taken more than eight years to build and is the first of two new carriers for the Navy; a second, the Prince of Wales, will follow in two years' time.

The navalized, carrier-based version of the Spitfire helped keep the British carrier fleet a force to be reckoned with, and ...

UK's Carrier Strike Group headed by HMS QUEEN Elizabeth sailed from Portsmouth for her maiden operational deployment. The 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier recently completed demanding training to ...

Almost a century after the construction of the original HMS Queen Elizabeth, a new breed of ship is commissioned by Defence Secretary Des Browne. The two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers will ...

Some of the aircraft carriers on this list, like the HMS Queen Elizabeth, were purpose-built aircraft carriers while others were either helicopter carriers or amphibious assault ships that have been ...

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A United States aircraft carrier returned to the South China Sea this week, following a five-day visit to Malaysia, while a Chinese "flattop" conducted a new round of sea trials. USS Carl Vinson ...

The aircraft is still in the development phase and will have to be able to handle ski-jump and electromagnetic catapult systems, analyst says.

We see these ships as maritime platforms, adaptable and powerful, ready to deliver carrier strike missions, enforce no-fly zones ... She will have a crew complement (minimum crew) of around 700, ...

China, which continues to invest heavily in the development of advanced military capabilities, will undoubtedly continue to build new aircraft carriers, likely naming them after eastern Chinese port ...