What You Need to Know: The USS George Washington (CVN-73), a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has returned to Yokosuka, Japan, to serve as the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 12 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of February 14.

On the morning of April 11, Capt. Brent Gaut, the commander of the USS George Washington -- an aircraft carrier undergoing major shipyard work at Newport News, Virginia -- got on the ship's intercom.

YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa Prefecture—The USS George Washington aircraft carrier arrived at the U.S. naval base here on Nov. 22 for its second deployment to the city. The ship is replacing the USS ...

Fighter jets are parked on the USS George Washington aircraft carrier on Nov. 14, 2024, as the three-day trilateral Freedom Edge exercise between South Korea, the United States and Japan is under ...

The Navy currently has 11 operational aircraft carriers, some of which are ... eight bear the names of former presidents: USS George Washington, USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Theodore Roosevelt ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.