Carriers equipped with steam catapults almost always have at least one of their four catapults operational, meaning aircraft are always ready to be launched. Such reliability should not be taken ...

China’s most advanced carrier the ... deck and then take off again immediately – conducted during its sixth and latest sea trial. They had yet to see clear signs of catapult-assisted launches ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

China has launched its third aircraft carrier and the first to feature a catapult aircraft launch system. The ship designed and built in China was christened as “Fujian” named after the ...

The Type 076 carrier could be seen as a significant "great leap forward" for the PLAN from the existing Type 075.

Flattops are incomplete without embarked aircraft and the PLAN is also expanding and technologically advancing its carrier air wings. It has two catapult-launch/arrested landing capable aircraft ...

Images are doing the rounds of what appear to be aircraft tire marks on the flight deck of China's most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian. According to analysts, the marks seem to indicate ...