Aircraft carriers can launch planes using a ramp, or with a steam or electromagnetic catapult, and there advantages to each ...

Like the chef of a rival restaurant, China has been closely studying the ingredients that make up U.S. aircraft carriers—and ...

the rest of the aircraft carriers are the Nimitz-class. The Center for Strategic and International Studies' China Power Project said: "The Fujian's catapults are powered by an electromagnetic ...

In February 2018 the navy confirmed that it had major problems with the design and construction of its new EMALS Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System catapult installed in its latest aircraft ...

In a head-on fight between the Nimitz and the Shandong, there is little doubt that the American carrier would destroy the ...

Continued problems with the advanced weapons elevators could affect the delivery of the Navy's next Ford-class carrier, Navy officials indicated.