Delivery of the Navy's next Ford-class aircraft carrier, the John F. Kennedy, was delayed two more years to 2027, budget ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Originally scheduled to be ready in July of 2025, the John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier being built at Newport News Shipbuilding now won’t be ready until 2027. The delay also means the ...

The future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) is now expected to join the fleet in March 2027, nearly two years later than the ...

Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget requests includes about USD3.3 billion in incremental funding for Ford-class aircraft carriers ...

When Israel launched surprise strikes on Iran on June 13, Netanyahu knew he was taking a calculated gamble. But the stakes were high. If he succeeded in taking out the nuclear and missile threats ...

Ahram Online provides live coverage of the unfolding military confrontation between Israel and Iran as the two sides waged deadly strikes against one another for the ninth day in a row.

Congress recently approved the purchase of two more carriers — the USS William J. Clinton and USS George W. Bush. The carriers would be commissioned at some point after 2036.

The Truman Carrier Strike Group remains fully mission capable, the Navy said. The strike group includes the flagship USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), the nine squadrons of Carrier Air Wing 1, three ...

The USS Ronald Reagan arrives at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Wash., in August 2024. The aircraft carrier went into a 17-month maintenance at the shipyard in March 2025.

Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base Kitsap on Mar. 21, 2025, for a deployment to the Indo-Pacific.

As the USS Nimitz counts down the time to say goodbye to Bremerton, the Navy announced its proposal to homeport another aircraft carrier at Naval Base Kitsap — the Ford-class USS John F. Kennedy ...

The White House announced that the Navy chose to name the fifth and sixth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers as USS William J. Clinton (CVN-82) and USS George W. Bush (CVN-83), after the two ...