Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy's Forrestal-class aircraft carriers, built during the Cold War, marked a significant advancement in sea-based warfare. Designed to accommodate larger ...

With Japan's fleet decimated, soon the war would be over. The U.S. aircraft carrier had won the day. Cold War Carriers. Bettmann // Getty Images. The USS Forrstal, the world's first super-carrier.

At the tail end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union produced a number of unique aircraft carriers. Known as the Kiev class, the carriers were the Soviets’ initial foray into the world of fixed ...

With slight variations per carrier and per cruise, the average Nimitz-class carrier of the Cold War carried between eighty-five and ninety aircraft. Today the carrier air wing looks quite different.

In the Cold War, the Soviets developed an array of platforms to launch cruise missiles against U.S. carrier battle groups, including submarines, surface ships, and aircraft.

By the end of the Cold War when the USSR was split up and its remaining territories became part of the Russian Federation, the government couldn't afford to maintain its existing carriers.

America’s longest-serving aircraft carrier in the 20th century, the USS Midway shot down MiGs in North Vietnam in 1965 and played a key role in the Cold War and Operation Desert Storm.

While aircraft carriers played major roles during the Cold War, there were no major conflicts featuring carrier strike groups, as the Soviet Union did not seem to possess equally as large carriers ...