Naval Base Kitsap would swap the Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, for its newest, the USS John F. Kennedy, ...

Named to honor World War II Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, these nuclear-powered carriers represented the largest warships to ever be built for the service until the ...

The USS Nimitz, anticipated to deploy overseas in the coming months, will be decommissioned in 2026, according to the Navy.

Nimitz's early career was strong but hardly remarkable. He became an expert in the new discipline of submarine warfare, lecturing on sub tactics at the Naval War College in 1912, serving under the ...

Obsolete Carrier: The Nimitz-class carriers, icons of U.S. power since the Cold War, may struggle in future conflicts dominated by anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD ...

In particular, Nimitz had to appraise balding Captain Charles H. (“Sock”) McMorris, Kimmel’s war plans officer, who had said (a week before Dec. 7) that Japanese airmen would never surprise ...

The time to say goodbye to the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier forever is getting closer — both for Washingtonians and the rest of the nation. In approximately a year the Navy's oldest active ...