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China’s third and most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, is undergoing an intensive series of sea trials as it edges ...

The People’s Liberation Army Navy Liaoning Carrier Strike Group is operating 124 miles north of the disputed Senkaku Islands ...

In addition to the Carl Vinson, a second U.S. aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman, was sent to the Middle East, where ...

While the Nimitz returned to the South China Sea for operations, its sister ship, the Japan-based USS George Washington, was also underway on Sunday in waters near the Northeast Asian country, marking ...

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USS Nimitz (CVN 68), the oldest-serving U.S commissioned aircraft carrier in the world, successfully completed its 350,000th arrested aircraft landing recently while sailing in the South China Sea ...

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and electromagnetic-driven aircraft elevators and launch systems. All require three times the electricity when in port compared to the Nimitz-class carriers that now account for 10 of the Navy’s ...