In the 1980s, the Soviet Navy constructed the Admiral Kuznetsov, a hybrid vessel meant to serve both as an aircraft carrier and a missile ... an Ancient Castle. The pool's open.

Explore the surreal Binhai Aircraft Carrier Theme Park in China, where the Soviet warship Kiev has been transformed into a ...

Russia's one and only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, is in the middle of a long-forestalled refit in Murmansk. But its repairs may take a bit longer now that the floating dry dock that ...

Pool//Getty Images ROKS Dokdo, an amphibious ship designed to ferry Republic of Korea marines ashore. Instead, LPX-II will be a real aircraft carrier ... more awesome. A floating air base will ...

The strategic value of the aircraft carrier was perhaps best exemplified during the Second World War. The true combat power of these floating airports ... from a storage pool at Andreyeva Bay.

As a result, if the object is less dense than the liquid it displaces, it will float. That’s essentially how ships stay afloat. Aircraft carriers, and most other ships, also have sharp prows ...

The sheer size of aircraft carriers, and the number of onboard facilities, earned these ships the nickname of "floating cities." The first Ford-class ship, the newly complete USS Gerald R.

and can be thought of as independent floating airfields. This leaves countries free to react quickly to global conflicts. The wide range of aircraft onboard aircraft carriers puts them at the ...

When it comes to the 100 years of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers ... bestow nicknames on their floating homes gave some even more unique identities. Most of the early carriers subscribed to the ...

There are parallels with the learning curve on traditional floating aircraft carriers. The Chinese Navy officially commissioned its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, in 2012. It took four ...