JS Kaga with its deck modifications. Picture by shipspotter @betafujihara via Naval News Modification work turning Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JS Kaga into an F-35B aircraft ...

On its way back to the United Kingdom, the British aircraft carrier could sail through the waters where the last Prince of ...

The USS George Washington joined British and Japanese aircraft carriers in the North Philippine Sea for a show of force.

Japan launched its second Izumo-class helicopter carrier, the largest warship built by the country since World War II, media sources reported August 27. The 24,000-ton ship, named Kaga, was unveiled ...

Although technically not called an "aircraft carrier," the Maritime Self-Defense Force's largest destroyer has begun sea trials following modifications to allow fighter jets to take off and land on ...

Aircraft carriers from Japan, the UK and the USA have conducted a major exercise in the Western Pacific, highlighted by the first landing of a UK-operated Lockheed Martin F-35B on a Japanese vessel.

Originally designed as a battleship, the Imperial Japanese Navy's Kaga was later converted into a pioneering aircraft carrier that played a central role in shaping Japan’s naval air strategy. Its ...

Japan has launched the second in its new class of helicopter carrier — the largest Japanese ships since World War II — in a Thursday ceremony in Yokohama. The 24,000-ton Kaga (DDH-184) — built by ship ...

The JS Kaga’s sister ship, JS Izumo, in March 2015. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Yamada Taro The Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) commissioned its second Izumo-class helicopter carrier JS Kaga ...

For the last day of President Donald Trump’s highly stage-managed state visit to Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took him to tour the Japanese warship JS Kaga. The Kaga, along with sister ship the ...