The Liaoning: From Soviet Waste to Chinese Pride Commissioned in 2012, the Liaoning began its life not as a Chinese vessel but as the Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag, an incomplete Kuznetsov -class ...

A month after leaving Kola Bay, aircraft of the Kuznetsov began operations against Islamic State and Al-Nusra terrorist ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet Union was determined to dominate the skies with a new breed of aircraft designed for rapid, long-range strikes against enemy aircraft carrier formations. The T-4 "Sotka," ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan this week confirmed that two Chinese aircraft carriers have operated together for the first time in the Pacific, fueling Tokyo’s concern about Beijing’s rapidly expanding ...

A Chinese aircraft carrier made one of its deepest forays into the Pacific Ocean over the weekend as Beijing continues to project its military power further from its shores.

The two Chinese carriers currently in the western Pacific employ the older “ski-jump” launch method for aircraft, with a ramp at the end of a short runway to assist planes taking off.

Ever heard of the supersonic Soviet jet with the nickname the 'Booze Carrier?' Well, let's just say it has a tipsy story, as it was vodka-cooled.

Japan said it observed two Chinese aircraft carriers and supporting warships operating simultaneously near remote Japanese islands in the Pacific Ocean for the first time, a new demonstration of ...

Captain Hakan Uçar, director of the Turkish Navy's Design Project Office (DPO), revealed new details of the country's first indigenous aircraft carrier and the TF-2000-class air-defence destroyer ...