USS George Washington is the only U.S. aircraft carrier currently positioned in the western Pacific to help keep China in check.

Chinese aircraft carrier strike groups have been operating further from home shores and in greater strength than ever before, testing state-of-the-art technology and sending a message they are a force to be reckoned with,

The People’s Liberation Army Navy’s Liaoning and Shandong Carrier Strike Groups continue to maintain their presence in the Philippine Sea, according to a Japan Joint Staff Office release on Tuesday. The two CSGs were operating in the Philippine Sea east of the Philippine island of Luzon on Monday,

Official media said China is about to enter a three-aircraft-carrier era, with the Fujian expected to enter service by 2025. After the launch of the Fujian on June 17, 2022, it carried out its first sea trial from May 1 to 8 in 2024.

U.S. aircraft carrier USS Nimitz left the South China Sea on Monday morning heading west, according to data from ship tracking website Marine Traffic, after a reception for its planned port call in central Vietnam was cancelled.

The United States aircraft carrier USS Nimitz continues to operate in the South China Sea, satellite imagery shows, as the Chinese navy expands its presence in the Pacific Ocean.

Japan this week confirmed that two Chinese aircraft carriers have operated together for the first time in the Pacific.

On October 15th 2016, the 43,000 ton Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuzentsov slipped out of the Kola Bay fjord in the Barents Sea. Escorted by a small flotilla of warships including the powerful Pyotr Velikiy battlecruiser,