Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 10 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of April 11.

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

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.

China has the largest navy in the world by hull count, with over 370 ships and submarines, including three aircraft carriers.

Liaoning is China’s first naval aircraft carrier. In the 1980s, it was built in a shipyard in Mykolaiv as a unit of Project 1143.6, intended for service in the Soviet fleet.

BEIJING--China said on Thursday its Liaoning aircraft carrier had been on a routine training mission in the western Pacific and dismissed charges by Tokyo that the vessel and its escorts had ...

TASS/. The Liaoning aircraft carrier is taking part in China’s Joint Sword-2024B exercise near Taiwan, Senior Captain Li Xi, spokesperson for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA ...

China's first aircraft carrier - the Type 001 Liaoning - is a Soviet "heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser" that China acquired in the late 1990s, upgraded and refitted over roughly a decade ...

More ESA According to satellite imagery, China's first operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was spotted at its home port in Qingdao in the eastern province of Shandong on Wednesday.