The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, billed by the US Navy as “the most capable, adaptable, and lethal combat platform in the world,” is being sent to the Caribbean as the Trump administration ...

The $12.9 billion warship stretches 4.5 acres and is the first of the Navy's next generation of aircraft carriers.

President Donald Trump dramatically escalated a U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean on Friday by deploying the Gerald Ford ...

The deployment comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a 10th strike against a suspected drug smuggling vessel.

Deploying an aircraft carrier is a major escalation of military power in a region that has already seen an unusually large US ...

The Midway-class aircraft carrier was instrumental in American naval operations around the world spanning from the end of ...

A spokesman said the dramatic increase in combat power aims to “disrupt narcotics trafficking” and “degrade and dismantle” ...

China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy carrier, two former US carrier officers say, a substantial combat limitation ...

When reporters asked Trump on Thursday whether he would request Congress issue a declaration of war against the cartels, he ...

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the ...