TOKYO -- Aircraft carriers from Japan, the U.S. and France are conducting joint drills for the first time off the Philippine ...

The joint U.S.-French-Japanese exercises mark the first time that a French Navy aircraft carrier operated in the Pacific ...

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group will carry out the week-long French-hosted exercise Pacific Steller with the French CSG ...

"It's not clear at the moment the operational concept behind the Kaga as an aircraft carrier, whether the mission is to obtain control of a sea area or to defend amphibious units," Hinata ...

These changes have given the Kaga the appearance of an aircraft carrier. However, the Japanese government has been careful to avoid calling its modified Izumo-class destroyers aircraft carriers ...

A flurry of naval drills surrounding the Philippines involving the United States and its partners has prompted complaints ...

Elevator cycles varied depending on raw elevator speed and whether the aircraft was being delivered from the upper or lower hangar. Akagi and Kaga’s elevators were older, slower models requiring ...

aircraft carriers—the Kaga, Akagi, Sōryū, and Hiryū—during the Battle of Midway in June 1942, one of the most decisive naval battles in history. But as impressive as the “Slow But Deadly ...

The navies of France, Japan and the United States today began Exercise Pacific Steller 2025, a multi-large deck event (MLDE) ...