DefenceTalkChina on Friday launched its biggest and most modern aircraft carrier, marking a major military advance for the Asian superpower. The announcement comes at a time of heightened tensions between China and the United States over Beijing’s saber-rattling towards Taiwan, which it views as a breakaway province to be seized by force if necessary. China’s […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-launches-third-aircraft-carrier-in-major-military-milestone-78988/

DefenceTalkChinese and US warships sailed through the flashpoint Taiwan Strait on Friday, Taiwanese and US officials said, shortly before China’s Xi Jinping issued a warning to Joe Biden that ties could suffer if there is a “mishandling” of the island’s status. The two warships sailed through the strait — which separates China from Taiwan — […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-aircraft-carrier-sails-through-taiwan-strait-ahead-of-biden-xi-talks-78451/

DefenceTalkChina is likely to use an electromagnetic catapult for fighter jets on its third aircraft carrier, experts said on Thursday. The world’s leading electromagnetic catapult technology was developed by a team led by Ma Weiming, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Beijing-based expert, who asked for anonymity, told the Global Times on […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-readying-new-catapult-for-3rd-aircraft-carrier-71100/

DefenceTalkChina’s second aircraft carrier might conduct its first sea trials in February, military analysts said after Taiwan media reported that China’s first aircraft carrier the Liaoning sailed near the island on Friday. China launched its second aircraft carrier in April 2017 after the Liaoning, a refitted Soviet Union-made carrier that went into commission in 2012. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinas-second-aircraft-carrier-to-hold-first-sea-trials-71030/

DefenceTalkChina’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning ship, sailed out from a military port in Qingdao of east China’s Shandong province to the South China Sea on the morning of November 26, accompanied by the guided missile destroyers “Shenyang” and “Shijiazhuang”, the guided missile frigates “Yantai” and “Weifang” of the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinas-aircraft-carrier-combat-taskforce-is-still-unfledged-49798/