Reuters
| May 15, 2013
In a move that could change sea-based warfare forever -- and remove the need for American drone bases overseas -- the US Navy has successfully launched an unmanned attack aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Landing the X-47B on a carrie...
Reuters
| May 8, 2013
Unmanned warfare just got more sophisticated. The US Navy's first sea-based, unmanned attack aircraft has passed its first "arrested landing test" in preparation for tests on board an aircraft carrier later this month. The X-47B, designed by North...
NTDTV
| Dec 1, 2012
The launch of a new Chinese fighter jet, the J-15, is causing quite the buzz on the Chinese Internet. Well, it's not exactly the jet that launched off China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, but two deckhands in yellow jackets signaling the ...
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CCTV News
| Sep 25, 2012
The Chinese Navy has officially put into service its first aircraft carrier, though the ship will mainly be used for training purposes. State broadcaster CCTV reports that China's top leaders, including President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen J...
LinkAsia
| Jun 8, 2012
In a trip to the region, US defense secretary Leon Panetta announced that the US would deploy 60 percent of its naval forces to the Asia-Pacific region. China has responded by announcing a plan to build four new aircraft carriers. MBC has the story.
LinkAsia
| Jan 6, 2012
A new aircraft carrier is just the first step in the People's Liberation Army's fortification of China's offshore defense. The country is rapidly expanding its naval capabilities, but says it will not be establishing foreign bases.
Euronews
| Jan 3, 2012
Tension is rising in the Persian Gulf after Iran once again tested long-range missiles and a senior army officer warned the US to keep its aircraft carriers out of the region. The warning, reported by the semi-official Fars news agency, did no...
LinkAsia
| Sep 16, 2011
China's military buildup has its neighbors on edge, but military analyst Phillip Saunders explains why we don't have to worry just yet.
— May 15 at 05:00 pm
...X-47B used a steam catapult to launch, just as traditional Navy warplanes do. The unarmed aircraft then made two low approaches toward the aircr...
An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project airpower worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations. They have evolved from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons into nuclear-powered warships that carry dozens of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.
Aircraft carriers are typically the capital ship of a fleet, and are extremely expensive to build and important to protect. Of the ten nations that possess an aircraft carrier, eight possess only one. Twenty aircraft carriers are currently active throughout the world with the U.S. Navy operating 10 as of February 2013 though some of these nations no longer have carrier-capable aircraft in inventory and have repurposed these ships.
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