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 ...

Satellite imagery indicates that Beijing might already be working on its fourth aircraft carrier—and this carrier is likely to be nuclear-powered.

China's Type 003 Fujian class of aircraft carrriers is conventionally powered. Credit: China Defense Ministry Amid the hoopla around the Zhuhai Airshow last year, a key moment passed almost unnoticed.

Type 001A is China's new class of carrier. The country first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, is a secondhand Soviet ship built more than 25 years ago and commissioned in 2012 after extensive refits.

Production delays, rising threats and shrinking numbers are putting the US's traditional aircraft carrier dominance on a ...