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.

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 ...

The Chinese also have three functioning aircraft carriers. They are building a nuclear-model now and would like six within the next decade. This means that the U.S. Navy must make the Ford-class ...

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.

That is why countries such as China and India initially purchased incomplete or decommissioned aircraft carriers to put into service rather than build brand new aircraft carriers entirely from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

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 ...