The Nimitz Class aircraft carrier continues to be the centerpiece of the forces necessary for operating forward. In times of crisis, the first question leaders ask in a crisis is: “Where are the ...

aircraft. Despite the Indian Navy's head start in the 1990s, China's carrier capabilities and virtually all carrier-relevant industries have overtaken India's in scale and sophistication.

What You Need to Know: The top five WWII aircraft carriers—chosen for their strategic ... guaranteed to generate controversy, as (1) they’re admittedly highly subjective, though I always ...

An aircraft ... that the carriers in the new Ford class will save more than $5 billion each in ownership costs over the ...

New generation of navy officers aboard PLA’s first aircraft carrier more confident in using the foreign language to warn off planes and vessels.

Those who serve in uniform put their lives on the line all the time, but few are as at risk as the people working on the flight deck of an active aircraft carrier. It's not hyperbole to say that ...

China has sent another aircraft carrier into the wider western Pacific ... 44 PLA aircraft, 6 PLAN vessels and 1 official ship operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC 8) today.

The FC-31 Gyrfalcon, with a variant now officially revealed as the ‘J-31B’, is positioned as China’s answer to the US fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II.

On Monday night, the People’s Liberation Army Navy aircraft carrier CNS Shandong (17) sailed out of the Philippine Sea back into the South China Sea, Japan’s Joint Staff Office (JSO ...

China’s naval planners desire to have five or six aircraft carriers in their fleet by the 2030s, according to Wang Yunfei, a retired PLAN officer with knowledge about Beijing’s carrier plans.

Ford successfully received more than 1.3 million gallons of fuel ... "The primary mission of an aircraft carrier is to fly aircraft, and we need to be able to replenish the jet fuel without ...