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China renamed its homegrown regional airliner to better sell it abroad. Here's how it compares to its closest rival.
The C909 has been compared to planes like the Boeing 717 and the McDonnell Douglas MD-80, but its c…
Taylor Rains
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China's renaming of its regional jet is another clear sign its homegrown planemaker is coming for Boeing and Airbus
The ARJ21 is now to be known as the C909. The renaming plays into COMAC's ambition to enter the glo…
Matthew Loh
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China's navy flexed new muscles in the South China Sea with its first dual aircraft carrier drills
Photos show its Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers carrying out dual operations for the first …
Chris Panella
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Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers would give China's growing navy new reach, and researchers say it's working on the reactor to power one
A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, like American carriers, would be a major jump for China, giving…
Chris Panella
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China is closing a South China Sea surveillance gap with a new radar made to spot stealth aircraft, satellite images suggest
The system, purported to have advanced counter-stealth capabilities, could challenge how US forces …
Chris Panella
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US warships and aircraft are readying for a fight as further violence grips the Middle East
The Pentagon said it is keeping a carrier strike group and an amphibious ready group in the Middle …
Jake Epstein
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Indian Coast Guard rescues 11 in a sea-air operation after merchant ship en route from Kolkata to Port Blair sinks
Indian Coast Guard on Sunday night, in a coordinated sea-air Search and Rescue (SAR) operation, res…
ANI
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Iran and Turkey are betting on drone aircraft carriers to project power
Drone-carrying ships, like those Iran and Turkey are building, are a gamble on the rising power of …
Paul Iddon
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Rare satellite image shows China's only two operational aircraft carriers together at a base in the South China Sea
The carriers were docked at Sanya Naval Base on Hainan Island in the South China Sea earlier this w…
Chris Panella
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A US F-35 stealth fighter just landed on a destroyer Japan turned into an aircraft carrier for the first time off the California coast
Photos show a US F-35B operating on Japan's newly converted destroyer-turned-aircraft carrier off t…
Chris Panella
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Taiwan reports increased military activity by China around territory
The island nation's Ministry of National Defence (MND) in a statement said that China's People's Li…
ANI
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A US Navy aircraft carrier has left the Middle East, ending a rare show of force
Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt was sent to the Middle East in June to take over the Navy's…
Jake Epstein
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US forces are going to help Japan get its destroyer-turned-aircraft carrier ready to fly F-35 stealth fighters
The operational tests for F-35B stealth fighters comes after Japan recently finished modification w…
Chris Panella
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The US Navy has no aircraft carriers deployed in Pacific as Middle East conflicts pull the Pentagon's focus from China
The US faces a carrier gap in the Pacific, where tensions continue to rise amid aggressive actions …
Chris Panella
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The US Navy is on its fourth aircraft carrier as its warships react to fighting in the Middle East
USS Abraham Lincoln is on its way as the US Navy continues to react to a range of crises in the Mid…
Jake Epstein
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Ukraine says it destroyed glide bombs at a Russian air base that aircraft fly out of to bomb the front lines
Ukraine has used homemade, long-range weapons to strike Russian airfields where fighter-bombers and…
Jake Epstein
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Demands in the Middle East risk leaving an aircraft carrier-sized hole in US naval power in the Western Pacific
As the fights in the Middle East continue to pull the US military's focus to challenges there, a ca…
Chris Panella
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China's air force is again being called out for 'dangerous' moves over the South China Sea, this time for popping flares in front of a US ally's aircraft
The Philippines said a pair of Chinese jets flew close to one of its transport planes and popped fl…
Chris Panella
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China wants a fleet of aircraft carriers for pride and power, and it's building it at a breakneck pace
China is rushing to build a fleet of aircraft carriers and making major technology jumps. It sees d…
Chris Panella
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A US electronic attack aircraft that battled the Houthis scored its first-ever air-to-air kill, Navy reveals
The EA-18G Growler was deployed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower during the Nav…