China has strengthened its maritime power as the country’s second active aircraft carrier achieved “all-weather” combat capacity last year. Named Shandong, the carrier recently completed its ...

China’s second active aircraft carrier Shandong achieved “all-weather” combat capacity in the year 2024, while cutting the time needed for jet deployment, according to state news agency Xinhua.

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

although the new ship is longer that China’s two preceding carriers, the Liaoning and the Shandong, constructed along Soviet models and technology. The installation of three catapults on its ...

The Luohe, launched on Wednesday, is tipped to be ‘critical asset in escort missions requiring prolonged operations in more distant waters’.

At least 65 oil tankers have dropped anchor at multiple locations, including off the coasts of China and Russia, since the ...

Its second mission took place in December 2023 off the coast of Yangjiang in Guangdong province, becoming the first sea-based rocket to launch from the South China Sea. The third also happened off the ...

In December, eight very large crude carriers, with a capacity of two million barrels each, discharged mostly Iranian oil at Shandong, estimates from tanker tracker Vortexa showed. The vessels ...

The Chinese navy has launched an amphibious assault ship which will double up as a drone carrier, integrating the battleship with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a Chinese naval official said.

China has strengthened its maritime power as the country's second active aircraft carrier achieved “all-weather” combat capacity last year. Named Shandong, the carrier recently completed its final ...

More Sentinel Hub A satellite image showed the Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, was pierside at its base in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province, on Wednesday. CNS Shandong ...

In December, eight very large crude carriers, with a capacity of two million barrels each, discharged mostly Iranian oil at Shandong, estimates from tanker tracker Vortexa showed. The vessels ...