As the legendary USS Enterprise (CVN-65) is dismantled, its legacy—including two near-catastrophic grounding incidents—serves ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name. Commissioned in 1961, it revolutionized ...

Why sell billion-dollar carriers for a penny? Because scrapping them costs a fortune. -Decommissioned supercarriers like USS ...

Shortly before USS Enterprise went to the breakers, a new ship bearing the name was laid down; CVN-65, the world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier. The latter USS Enterprise served for fifty years, ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A piece of naval history is now a part of the USS George Washington (CVN 73). The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is currently undergoing its midlife refueling and complex overhaul ...

The Navy is taking a second look at whether to send nuclear reactor compartments from the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to Hanford for disposal. In 2012, the Department of Defense ...

It’s a new feeling for 26-year old pipefitter Brett Denson. He learned his trade as an apprentice while helping to build the aircraft carriers USS Gerald R. Ford and USS John F. Kennedy in Newport ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A major milestone is at hand for Hampton Roads' largest industrial employer. Newport News Shipbuilding hosted the keel laying ceremony for the nation's next Navy aircraft carrier ...

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The U.S. Navy will drop from 11 to 10 aircraft carriers for about a year once the USS Nimitz is decommissioned next year, as recent budget documents show a new carrier will be delayed from its ...