The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) currently operates two aircraft carriers, the Type 001 Liaoning (CVS-16) and the Type 002 Shandong (CVS-17), while its third flattop, the Type 003 Fujian ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

Key Point: China’s carrier fleet is still a work in progress. Is China’s newest aircraft carrier half-full or half-empty? That depends on how you look at the vessel’s aircraft capacity.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

The USS Carl Vinson is conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, with the George Washington in Japan and ...