A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier displaces approximately 100,000 long tons when fully loaded. Two nuclear reactors pour four steam turbines and four shafts, which produce 260,000 shaft horsepower.

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

U.S. carriers were in Thailand, Japan and the Eastern Pacific this week, while a carrier from France is set to visit the ...

When Russia’s Oreshnik missile delivered its multiple payloads to Ukraine’s PA Pivdenmash plant in Dnipro, the guardian angels of aircraft carriers around the world wept. While some defenders of the ...

The Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

More U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nate Jordan On Monday, the Nimitz was spotted leaving Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington. The aircraft carrier was underway in the U ...

Bush’s father, President George H. W. Bush, has a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier named after him. "I have a special admiration for the men and women of our Navy -- including my dad -- and ask God ...

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) sails in formation in the Philippine Sea. On Monday, President Joe Biden announced two new nuclear-powered aircraft carriers ...