China’s new carrier, known as the Type 004, is the country’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Such a carrier would be overkill if it were simply intended to project power into the First ...

Options for the combat element of the 10th Carrier Aviation Brigade include the newly delivered Shenyang J-35 for the ...

Michael Duitsman, a researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, told NBC News that the satellite images suggest that China is preparing for a fourth-generation carrier, likely ...

China’s three current aircraft carriers ... One reason this particular section of a presumed Type 004 carrier would warrant prototype builds is the electromagnetic catapults themselves ...

on the third Chinese carrier, the Fujian, launched in 2022 and expected to become operational shortly. It appears that the new Type 004 – as it’s being called for now – will have four catapults, one ...