The Soviet Union’s Kiev-class “heavy aviation cruisers” were ambitious but ultimately flawed warships of the Cold War. Functioning as hybrids between a guided-missile cruiser and an aircraft carrier, ...

China is reviving an ekranoplan design dubbed the "Bohai Sea Monster," echoing the Soviet "Caspian Sea Monster", a vessel ...

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.

The Cold War era saw the advent of the Kiev-class aircraft carriers and later the Kuznetsov-class, ... We ordered these aircraft carriers according to when they were commissioned.

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — A British aircraft carrier that had been set to lead the largest NATO exercises since the Cold War will not set sail Sunday after a problem with its propeller was discovered during ...