Key Points and Summary – For decades, American supercarriers like the Nimitz- and Ford-class have been the Navy’s ultimate symbols of power projection. -But expert Christian D. Orr argues their future ...

Understanding why US aircraft carriers go completely dark at sea reveals a complex interplay of physics, advanced technology, and strategic thinking that has evolved over decades of naval combat ...

“Ski-jump” carriers are smaller and weaker than catapult-equipped ones—but as recent events involving the president show, catapults are far from a silver bullet for effective carrier operations.