The Fujian aircraft carrier marks a significant leap in China’s power projection capabilities, positioning it to advance its strategic ambitions in the Asia-Pacific. The first being to provide air ...

The 300 meters Liaoning - named after the province where it was refitted - is a refurbished Soviet ship purchased from Ukraine (ex Varyag). For now the carrier has no operational aircraft and will ...

A recent article speculates China’s navy needs three to five aircraft carriers. Even if built, not all can be ready, all the time.

Unbeknownst to everyone else, he was actually buying it on behalf of the Chinese government to get his country an aircraft ...

The presence of Su-33 aircraft over the Norwegian and Barents Seas reveals more about the state of the Russian navy than the ...

Russia's only aircraft carrier ... of responsibility in terms of making new Admiral Kuznetsov-class carriers. Ukraine sold Varyag to China in 1998, and it entered service with the Chinese Navy ...

TASS/. The flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet, the Guards Missile Cruiser Varyag, left the fleet’s main naval base in Vladivostok on Saturday for a long ocean voyage, the fleet’s spokesman ...

During exercises in the Pacific Ocean, Russia’s Varyag missile cruiser used a Vulkan ... Over 20 vessels, as well as Tu-142, Il-38 and MiG-31 aircraft, were deployed to ensure the safety of ...