China is undergoing rapid naval modernization under President Xi Jinping, to build a "world-class" military by 2049.

China’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier has entered service, Chinese state media said, in a major step for the ...

President Trump caused a stir when he suggested aircraft carriers return to using steam catapults. Here's why that's way more complex than it sounds.

HII's Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) unit is reaching milestones for US Navy (USN) aircraft carrier construction, according to Chris Kastner, HII CEO, president, ...

China is rapidly developing its navy. The Fujian aircraft carrier was recently commissioned, and two more are now under ...

Like the newest US Navy Ford-class supercarriers, the Fujian uses an electromagnetic catapult launch system—leapfrogging the older steam catapults used by most of America’s flattops.

It was deployed to support Operation Southern Spear. The ship is the first of a new class of aircraft carriers being built for the U.S. military.

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

It's hard to understate just how much the aircraft carrier has changed the face of naval warfare, as well as global geopolitical power itself since the beginning of the Second World War. Throughout ...

Washington — The Pentagon said Friday that the U.S. is sending an aircraft carrier strike group to the waters off Latin America, an escalation that will dramatically increase the number of service ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A fighter jet and a helicopter based off the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz both crashed into the South China Sea within 30 minutes of each other, the Navy's Pacific Fleet said. The ...