[Featured image by Usn2012 via Wikimedia Commons | Cropped and scaled | CC BY-SA 3.0] While different types of aircraft catapults have been installed on aircraft carriers, they function in much ...

The large, unique Type 076 amphibious assault ship, boasting a catapult for launching fixed-wing aircraft, is a major addition to China's naval power.

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

In addition to the J-15 family of fighter aircraft, the Chinese navy has tested the nation's next-generation fighter jet for ...

created by US Naval Institute member Jeff Head at World-Wide Aircraft Carriers, breaks down the various carrier classes in use around the world today. The first class, Catapult Assisted Take-Off ...

The U.S. Navy is set to launch it next aircraft carrier, CVN 80, later this year. In a change from the planned USS Enterprise ...

TASS/. Russia has started developing an electromagnetic catapult for new-generation aircraft carriers, a defense industry source told TASS on Wednesday. "The electromagnetic catapult development ...

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 ...

China has launched its third aircraft carrier and the first to feature a catapult aircraft launch system ... The Fujian, which was previously known as the Type 003, has a flight deck that measures ...

China's Type 003 Fujian class of aircraft carrriers is conventionally ... China’s first catapult-assisted-but-assisted-recovery carrier that is currently in sea trials. The scheduled first ...