The two Chinese carriers currently in the western Pacific employ the older “ski-jump” launch method for aircraft, with a ramp ...

China has worked tirelessly to modernize and expand its naval forces and aircraft carriers over the last decade.

As the aircraft carrier Taihō slipped beneath the waves, Vice-Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa initially chose to go down with his ship ...

Satellite imagery appears to have captured a Chinese aircraft ... aligned Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines. It remains unclear whether the Chinese navy had dispatched the aircraft carrier and ...

Fighter jets and helicopters performed 120 takeoffs and landings from the Liaoning, a Chinese Navy aircraft carrier, on Sunday and Monday, the Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday. At one point, the ...

On the waters off Kuba Island in the East China Sea, less than 200 kilometers from Japan’s Senkaku Islands, a growing sense of unease swept through Tokyo’s defense circles over the weekend. The ...

PLAN Aircraft carrier CNS Liaoning (16) and CNS Anyang (599) on May 25, 2025. JSDF Photos Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer JS Takanami (DD-110) and a JMSDF P-3C Orion Maritime ...

Japan’s Defense Ministry has announced for the first time that China sent its Liaoning aircraft carrier into the East China Sea, some 200 kilometers from the Japanese-administered Senkaku ...

Japan's Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier Liaoning sailed in the East China Sea off the coast of the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture.

The deal, which was approved by the Japanese carrier’s board on 22 May, is valued at Y143.4 billion ($997 million) at list prices, and includes the purchase of CFM International engines.

DSEI JAPAN — By joining with Italy and the United Kingdom on the multinational Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) next-gen combat aircraft program, Japan’s defense industry has a chance to ...