Key Points – China’s ambition to build nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (Type 004 concept) to match US global naval power faces significant and likely protracted hurdles. -As of April 2025 ...

However, there has been speculation that China has set its sights on a nuclear-powered flattop as well, and there are good reasons to believe its Type 004 carrier could be significantly larger ...

It was the first time that China’s two active-duty aircraft carriers, the Liaoning and the Shandong, and their escort ships had operated together in the Pacific beyond the islands of Japan ...

A United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was conducting operations in the contested South China Sea, the Navy said, to showcase its ability to maintain warfighting advantages.

Amid the activities of PLAN carriers, it’s important to also watch the movements of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington, which is deployed at Yokosuka Naval Base ...

And China is building another carrier, for now known as the Type 004, which is expected to not only employ EMALS technology, but also – unlike Fujian but like the USS Ford – be nuclear-powered.

All three ships are conventionally powered, while all the U.S. carriers are nuclear powered, giving them the ability to operate at much greater range and with more power to run advanced systems.

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, along with its nine air squadrons, and an escort force including five destroyers, is leaving the South China Sea to join the USS Carl Vinson strike group in the ...

All three ships are conventionally powered, while all the U.S. carriers are nuclear powered, giving them the ability to operate at much greater range and more power to run advanced systems.

The Pentagon has diverted an aircraft carrier strike group from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East, marking the US Navy’s fourth such manoeuvre in less than a year and prompting words of ...