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 ...

We will never see a Raptor land on an aircraft carrier for two reasons. The first is the person behind the stick. USAF ...

This week H.M.S. Perseus, light (12,265 tons) carrier of the Royal Navy, was en route to Philadelphia, prepared to demonstrate a new catapult designed to handle hefty modern aircraft. The new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...