China sent all of its operational aircraft carriers to sea, while a U.S. "flattop" remained in the Philippine Sea.

China has the second-largest fleet of aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region, with three ships launched, including two ...

Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress. From the report The aircraft carriers CVN-78, CVN-79, CVN ...

Satellite images and Chinese documents point to work on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. A nuclear-powered carrier would be a major step toward China's "blue-water" navy ambitions. Researchers ...

USS Theodore Roosevelt was the previous American aircraft carrier operating in the South China Sea. It was underway in the ...

Photos published by the U.S. Navy showed the USS Carl Vinson is deployed with six additional F-35C stealth fighter jets.

There have long been rumors that China is planning to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, but the research by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California is the first to ...

Reports that China has built a prototype nuclear reactor for its next aircraft carrier have prompted renewed focus on its supposed long-term ambition to project naval power far from its shores.

A joint forces commander of France's military for the Pacific region says part of a French carrier strike group is due to ...

He said nuclear power would give the carrier a top-speed of up to 30 knots (55km/h or 34mph) and help increase the speed at which advanced launch systems for the aircraft could operate. Collin Koh ...