Key Points – China’s ambition to build nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (Type 004 concept) to match US global naval power faces significant and likely protracted hurdles. -As of April 2025 ...

A United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was conducting operations in the contested South China Sea, the Navy said, to showcase its ability to maintain warfighting advantages. Newsweek has ...

However, there has been speculation that China has set its sights on a nuclear-powered flattop as well, and there are good reasons to believe its Type 004 carrier could be significantly larger ...

And China is building another carrier, for now known as the Type 004, which is expected to not only employ EMALS technology, but also – unlike Fujian but like the USS Ford – be nuclear-powered.

The Pentagon has diverted an aircraft carrier strike group from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East, marking the US Navy’s fourth such manoeuvre in less than a year and prompting words of ...

Why 2 Chinese aircraft carriers are operating in the Pacific together for the first time China’s navy on Tuesday confirmed the deployments, calling it part of routine training in the western ...

The USS Ford, America’s flagship 1,100-foot nuclear-powered carrier, is expected to be sent to Europe as soon as next week, making it the third US aircraft carrier group in the region, CNN’s ...

Beijing has the world’s largest navy numerically but lags far behind the United States in its number of aircraft carriers. China has three, the U.S. 11.

Starting on June 14th, FlightRadar24 shows that at least five flights traveled from China to Iran, and The Telegraph reported that the "mystery transport planes" had flown westward along northern ...

While the Liaoning represents a significant leap forward for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as its first-ever aircraft carrier, it is by no means the most advanced carrier in ...

Mapped: How China Staged Double Aircraft Carrier Show of Force in Pacific Published Jun 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM EDT Updated Jun 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM EDT 01:15 ...