China’s ambition to build nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (Type 004 concept) to match US global naval power faces significant and likely protracted hurdles. -As of April 2025, no such vessel exists.

(FORTUNE Magazine) – It's the most technologically challenging, toughest-to-manufacture product. It delivers more striking power than the combined navy and air forces of most nations. It's the ...

Why bother building more supercarriers ... House Armed Services Committee member as a strong advocate for aircraft carriers.

In an age of shrinking defense budgets, smaller wars, and the Pacific Pivot, the U.S. should ditch its supercarrier-only policy and build smaller, less expensive aircraft carriers. In 2010 ...

China has secretly built an aircraft carrier for drones ... to maintain a sortie rate that justifies the cost of building a drone-only carrier. It might be difficult to deconflict the radio ...

it is still only half the size of the US Pacific Fleet’s carrier force. China is reportedly building a fourth aircraft carrier, making it the second largest carrier power behind the United States.

I. Sutton, writing for Naval News, first reported that efforts are now underway at the Jiangsu Dayang Marine shipyard to build a fourth Chinese aircraft carrier. “Hidden away in a shipyard on ...

The United States has 11 aircraft carriers and is building more that are incomparably more advanced than the Kuznetsov, and Russia knows this all too well. Russia announced plans to build a modern ...

New weapon systems to counter carrier groups are emerging at far less cost. Can the enormous outlay to build and maintain a Ford-class aircraft carrier still be justified? This article will ...

Countering China’s Aircraft Carrier Fleet: The A2/AD Plan to Level the Seas China is intent on building its own aircraft carriers, which is a strange circumstance, since Beijing has spent so ...

Russia's sole aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov ... Russia has struggled to build effective fixed-wing jets for those ships to carry into action. Yakovlev Yak-38 The dawn of the jet age after ...

Bangkok — China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor for a large surface warship, in the clearest sign yet Beijing is advancing toward producing its first nuclear-powered aircraft ...