German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed the suggestion by her anointed successor to pursue a joint European aircraft carrier, a major symbol of military capability only operated by a handful of nations worldwide.
The Japanese government announced on Tuesday that it will deploy aircraft carriers for the first time since World War II as part of a defense strategy that will involve purchasing a great deal of American military hardware, a course of action U.S. President Donald Trump has strongly urged.
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its battle group arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday, a friendship visit widely interpreted as an easing of tensions between the U.S. and China just a few weeks after the Chinese refused to allow a U.S. warship to dock in Hong Kong.
Taiwan’s latest military exercise began on Tuesday with a simulated attack on coastal bases by Chinese warplanes hypothetically launched from the Liaoning, currently the only functional aircraft carrier operated by the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
China’s first domestically-designed aircraft carrier departed the Dalian shipyard on Monday for its second sea trial, having made a number of improvements and adjustments after its maiden voyage in May.
The China National Nuclear Corporation began taking bids to construct a nuclear-powered icebreaker on Thursday, taking what the state-run Global Times happily described as “a move to prepare for the construction of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.”
China responded on Monday to criticism of its heavy bombers landing on a South China Sea airstrip by insisting it was all part of a routine training exercise and said the United States is the party that threatens regional stability by sending warships on freedom of navigation patrols through territory claimed by Beijing.
China’s first domestically produced aircraft carrier, which has not been given an official name yet, began sea trials on Sunday morning.
China’s latest show of naval force occurred on Sunday in the East China Sea, where the aircraft carrier Liaoning led a fleet of undetermined size in live-fire combat drills.
An underwater search team led by the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, has discovered the wreckage of the USS Lexington, a 76-year-old World War II aircraft carrier in the Coral Sea.
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson docked in Danang on Monday, marking the first visit by an American aircraft carrier to Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. The port call is seen as both a landmark in evolving U.S.-Vietnam relations and a strong message to China, which is taking aggressive action to seize control over the entire South China Sea.
China has mastered the ability to design and build “larger” aircraft carriers, reports a state-run newspaper, days after the massive nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson, an American carrier, sailed across the South China Sea.
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has attended the commissioning ceremony of Britain’s new aircraft carrier, which is named after the monarch.
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and its strike group have arrived in the Persian Gulf to participate in Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s new flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has arrived at its home port in southern England to great fanfare.
The Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, has significant quality-of-life upgrades from earlier carriers, such as roomier berthing spaces, where the sailors sleep and relax.
President Trump has placed a high priority on rebuilding the U.S. military and allowing his commanders to make more calls. So far, in the administration’s first six months, successes have been piling up.
Smelling of fresh paint instead of jet fuel, the U.S. Navy’s newest, most advanced aircraft carrier will join the fleet this weekend, bringing the nation’s carrier fleet back up to 11 and marking the beginning of Trump’s military rebuild.
The Royal Navy is set to launch its largest and most powerful warship ever Monday.
The Algemeiner reports: JNS.org – The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier will dock in Israel’s Haifa Bay next month for the first time in 17 years ahead of participating in military air campaigns against the Islamic State.
A joint military exercise between the United States and Japan began in the Sea of Japan on Thursday amid tensions caused by North Korean missile launches and a possible upcoming nuclear test.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is secretly building the world’s largest airship at a cost of up to $150 million to serve both as the ultimate luxury yacht and rapid transit for remote natural disasters.
China launched a 50,000-ton aircraft carrier on Wednesday, its second carrier after the Soviet-built Liaoning, which China purchased from Ukraine. The new ship represents a milestone because it is the first domestically constructed carrier for China.
This week, the media got carried away with an aircraft carrier story that turned out to be not what they originally believed. They later blamed the White House for misleading them, but only long after they failed to get the story fully correct.
A report circulating in South Korean media claims that two more U.S. aircraft carriers will be sent to join the USS Carl Vinson strike group off the Korean coast.
On Tuesday, the aircraft carrier USS George W. Bush entered the Strait of Hormuz from the Indian Ocean, a vital waterway that handles about 30 percent of the world’s oil shipping. As it has done so often over the past few years, Iran sent a swarm of speedboats to harass the carrier.
Sources within the Japanese government revealed plans on Monday to send the Izumo helicopter carrier, the nation’s largest warship, on a three-month tour of the South China Sea.
China is reportedly nearing completion on some two dozen structures that could house long-range missiles in the South China Sea.
Russia’s military on Friday said it has begun scaling back its deployment to Syria, with Moscow’s sole aircraft carrier ordered to leave the conflict zone first.
China’s only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, has been roaming through the South China Sea with its battle group in tow, making other Pacific powers nervous, especially Taiwan and Japan.
From Graham Flanagan at Business Insider: The US Navy is making its presence known in the heavily disputed South China Sea. It recently deployed two aircraft carriers along with about 140 aircraft and additional ships to conduct training exercises. Read the
Tensions in the South China Sea continue slowly mounting, as China has denied the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis permission to make a port call in Hong Kong.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter paid his second visit in five months to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, on station in the South China Sea, this time in the company of Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin.
As a part of a continuing effort to expand Chinese naval presence and project power across the South China Sea, the communist government has completed construction of the world’s largest aircraft carrier dock. The dock is 700 feet long and can service two ships at a time.
