The United States is again leaning on its carrier fleet to manage a volatile standoff with Iran, even as its most famous flattop edges toward the scrapyard. As tensions around Israel and Tehran sharpen,

With simultaneous crises emerging in the Middle East and Asia, the United States has too few aircraft carriers for its global demands.

The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is now in the Middle East, having been redirected from its Indo-Pacific deployment to the region in recent weeks as tensions with Iran increase, USNI News has learned.

A fighter jet and a helicopter based on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other, the Navy's Pacific Fleet said. The three crew members of the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter were rescued on Sunday ...

WASHINGTON(AP) — A fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other, the Navy's Pacific Fleet said. The three crew members of the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter were ...

USS Theodore Roosevelt, flagship of Carrier Strike Group 9, is underway conducting exercises in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations.