though not full-fledged aircraft carriers, can carry up to 20 F-35Bs. The ability to mount different types of attacks on an adversary using the same ship platform complicates the enemy’s ability ...

and then evade enemy defenses, homing in on targets such as aircraft carriers or troop ships. Ship-based fighters can also lay minefields with the Quicksink mine system, which turns a 2,000-pound ...

The presence of an aircraft carrier can be a deterrent to any enemy when spotted just off the shore. Amphibious assault ships primarily transport and insert ground forces — which can then be ...

video feeds and sensor information from new high-tech ocean warfare drones specially engineered to track enemy ships, small boats, aircraft and land weapons. The Navy’s emerging MQ-4C Triton ...

Fighting WWII meant the Navy not only had to build enough ships to beat the Japanese ... a devastating loss. Twelve aircraft carriers were sunk by the enemy during World War II -- five fleet ...

Then came the aircraft carrier, a floating runway and hangar that could launch planes far away from land, at targets well beyond the range of a ship’s cannons, sinking enemy vessels far beyond ...

A U.S. robot ship resembling a "Star Wars" spacecraft skimming the waves could hunt for enemy submarines within ... could protect the U.S. Navy's prize aircraft carriers and other large warships ...