While those specifications were impressive for the day, the I-400's headline was that it doubled as an aircraft carrier ... wasn't alone in countering Soviet power. The British Royal Navy fielded ...

While Kuznetsov ’s reentry to service was supposed to commence last year, no clear timeline for the carrier’s return to ...

During WWII, the Soviet Union experimented with a radical concept—massive bombers carrying fighter planes deep into enemy territory. These "flying aircraft carriers" could launch swarms of ...

On October 15th 2016, the 43,000 ton Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuzentsov ... This is the story of the Soviet Navy’s carrier program, it’s origins, it’s highs, it’s lows and the ...

Back in 2020, the Barents Observer, a publication specializing in Russian military news, identified two competing programs as being the keys to understanding post-Soviet Russian aircraft carrier ...

The US is officially extending the deployment of an aircraft carrier in the Middle East. The Pentagon is also directing a second carrier to the region while another moves into the Pacific.

China's Type 003 Fujian class of aircraft carrriers ... s Navy activated the 1st Carrier Air Wing, consisting of prototypes of new J-15 fighters. These clones of Soviet-era Sukhoi Su-33 fighters ...

Song noted that China has gone from having no aircraft carrier to having three, from refitting a Soviet-era carrier to independently building carriers, from having ski-jump carriers to having a ...

The United States is increasing the number of aircraft carriers deployed in West Asia to two, keeping one that is already there and sending another from the Indo-Pacific, the Pentagon said on ...

Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at ...

The US is officially extending the deployment of an aircraft carrier in the Middle East. The Pentagon is also directing a second carrier to the region while another moves into the Pacific. The force ...

CNS Shandong (17). JMSDF Photo The Chinese aircraft carrier CNS Shandong (17) made its first deployment to the Western Pacific for 2025 and was a major unit in Tuesday’s military drill targeted ...