Like the chef of a rival restaurant, China has been closely studying the ingredients that make up U.S. aircraft carriers—and ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...