On its final deployment following nearly half a century of service, the Navy’s oldest operational aircraft carrier was ported ...

CENTCOM is keeping a heightened posture as the threat from Iran persists despite a ceasefire, General Joseph Votel said.

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group returned home after 269 days at sea, continuing a trend of longer-than-normal ...

Nearly half a century after its first deployment, the Navy’s oldest active aircraft carrier made a rare visit to Bahrain that ...

The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is in port in Bahrain, marking the first time an aircraft carrier has visited the Middle Eastern country since 2020.

US Navy/National Archives The USS Nimitz was commissioned in May 1975. At the time of its commissioning, it was only the second nuclear-powered carrier ever built, after the USS Enterprise.

BREMERTON, Wash. – At long last, the USS Nimitz returned home Sunday, close to a year after the aircraft carrier left Sinclair Inlet in Washington state. The 100,000-ton warship, in completing a ...

Iran Acting US defense secretary orders USS Nimitz to remain in Middle East, citing Iranian threat Announcement comes on 1-year anniversary of killing of Iran’s top military general Qassem Soleimani ...

The Nimitz, the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton and other 5th Fleet personnel continued their search on Monday, Rebarich said. She declined to identify the missing sailor, citing Navy policy.

The 1,092-foot-long USS Nimitz named after the legendary World War II naval commander Adm. Chester William Nimitz Sr. was one of the largest ships on earth at the time of its commission and saw ...

Step aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) as we explore life and operations on one of the ...

Launched just over a year before the bicentennial of the United States in 1975, the USS Nimitz has been diagnosed with mechanical problems that will keep it sidelined for at least two months.