Aircraft Carriers

Lawmakers grilled Navy leaders about a plan to send an aircraft carrier into retirement decades early.

It's not often sailors get permission to take a baseball bat to a multimillion-dollar aircraft carrier.

An influential congressman is hitting back against the Navy's plan to move an aircraft carrier into retirement decades early.

The Navy Department wants more than $205 billion for thousands more sailors, new ships, unmanned vessels and aircraft.

While women are gunning for ground combat jobs, female sailors are grateful for those who paved their way.

The U.S. is turning to allies in the Middle East to fill gaps when Navy aircraft carriers can't make it out to the region.

NATO needs two more destroyers based in Europe and more carrier presence in the North Atlantic to counter Russia, he said.

"In a perfect world -- and hindsight is 20/20 -- we would've built this back in probably 2008 and not today."

The Navy is working through a series of problems that have left the Ford behind schedule and over budget.

The wreck of the World War II aircraft carrier Hornet has been discovered off the Solomon Islands by a research organization.