Aircraft carriers are supposed to project power and resilience, yet naval history is littered with ships that instead showcased epic failure. From rushed wartime conversions to peacetime engineering ...
China has just flown a massive new drone “mothership” that looks like something lifted from concept art, yet it is very real and already in the air. The Jiu Tian platform, billed as a kind of flying ...
An aircraft carrier is an enormous and imposing vessel. They also represent gigantic investments in terms of not only money but in development time and other resources. The last thing a nation would ...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lyle Goldstein is director of Asia Engagement at Defense Priorities. In late September, the Chinese navy made public the remarkable tests of its new Fujian aircraft carrier, sparking ...
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a commissioning and flag-presenting ceremony of the Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier and the first that it has both designed and built itself ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the commissioning of its third aircraft carrier, China now boasts the second largest number of such ships in the world, though it still lags far behind the 11 operated by the ...