The Type 003 Fujian, commissioned into the People’s Liberation Army Navy earlier in November, will be stationed at China’s Yulin Naval Base in southern Hainan—overlooking the South China Sea.

Satellite imagery flagged by open-source analyst MT Anderson and captured by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 ...

USS George Washington and its aircraft carrier strike group have been operating west of the Philippines’ Palawan coast, ...

China’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier passed through the Taiwan Strait on its way to conduct “scientific research tests and training missions in the South China Sea,” China’s Ministry of ...

The Fujian marks a new phase for China’s naval aviation capability.

Chinese state media reports new aircraft carrier has been commissioned as Beijing seeks to extend power far overseas BEIJING -- Chinese state media reports new aircraft carrier has been commissioned ...

Xinhua News Agency reports that the Chinese navy has had take off arrested landing tests of the J-15T, J-35 fighter jets and the KJ-600 early warning and command aircraft with a electromagnetic ...

Ma, father of the carrier's electromagnetic launch system, is among a select few at the vessel's commissioning ceremony ...

Carrier Fujian (018), CNS Hangzhou (136) and CNS Jinan (152). JMSDF photo This story was updated to include a statement from the People’s Liberation Army Navy. China’s newest aircraft carrier and the ...

After Fujian was commissioned on November 5, China now operates a fleet of three aircraft carriers. This makes the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) the world's second-largest operator of carriers.