USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world’s first nuclear-powered carrier and a U.S. Navy icon. Commissioned in 1961, the “Big E” tracked John Glenn’s Friendship 7, enforced the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

U.S. Navy’s Iconic Enterprise Nuclear Carrier Set for Dismantling in Alabama, Freeing Shipyard Space and Cutting Costs by $1 Billion The U.S. Navy has officially signed off on a historic contract that ...

The world’s first nuclear-powered carrier, will be dismantled in Mobile, Alabama by 2029 for $536.7 million—marking the symbolic end of an era in U.S. naval history. The first-ever nuclear-powered ...

What is the U.S. Navy’s best aircraft carrier ever? The question is hard to answer. Like comparing Jordan against Lebron, do we account for differences in era? Do we evaluate relative to ...

A small boat passes in front of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise as it is anchored of the coast of Faliro, near Athens, Greece, on March 29, 2012. File photo by Petros Giannakouris/AP A ...

NorthStar Maritime Dismantlement Services, a partnership between NorthStar Group Services and Modern American Recycling and Radiological Services, has secured a firm-fixed-price contract valued at ...

The oldest active nuclear-powered supercarrier completed a 270-day-long deployment. Next year, CVN-68 will head to Naval Station Norfolk to be decommissioned and recycled ...