This was only one of several design or engineering faults to affect the Queen Elizabeth, the lead ship of the latest class of British aircraft carriers. A series of mechanical setbacks would go on ...

By contrast, the HMS Prince of Wales uses a more conventional direct mechanical drive system, one that is rather different ...

Aircraft carriers can launch planes using a ramp, or with a steam or electromagnetic catapult, and there advantages to each ...

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.

HMS Prince of Wales (R09) and its escorts departed the Plymouth and Portsmouth naval bases on Tuesday, “beginning an ...

Although the British aircraft carrier does not carry the same firepower as U.S. supercarriers, it is still a formidable foe.

LONDON/ANKARA, Turkey–The UK’s second-ever Carrier Strike Group with Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers has set sail for ...

Business Insider UK was allowed aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's most ... When we’re fully embarked with aircraft we’re gonna be feeding almost 2,000, so that in itself is ...

The UK MoD issued a request for information for a new airborne surveillance system capable of operating from Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers. With the Royal Navy’s present airborne early ...

The UK’s premier naval deployment of 2025 is underway as ships departed ports in England and Norway, led by the nation’s ...

The UK's much-anticipated Carrier Strike Group 25 (CSG25) deployment to the Indo-Pacific region has officially begun, ...