The Chinese navy, the largest in the world by hull count, deployed its aircraft carriers—CNS Liaoning and CNS Shandong—to the eastern side of the first island chain simultaneously for the ...

The task force was welcomed with a ceremony held by Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government at the Ngong Shuen ...

The United States sent one of its aircraft carriers for a trilateral naval exercise this week with its allies, Japan and South Korea, staging a show of force in front of North Korea.

The biggest of these — and to date the biggest aircraft to ever land and take off from a carrier — is the C-130 Hercules, which stands at 97 feet long, and 132 feet wide in wingspan.