“Operating a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is an exclusive club, one that China looks set to join.” While the Fujian carriers are not nuclear-powered, they are the only other warships of ...

While constructing a nuclear-powered carrier remains complex and ... the Type 003 Fujian. The Fujian, and the other two aircraft carriers in the Chinese fleet, both imported, are conventionally ...

The new Fujian was a bigger capability jump ... Liaoning operated off Taiwan's main island. A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier would extend China's naval reach. Nuclear power would allow China ...

"Operating a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is an exclusive club ... to focus on optimizing the existing design of the Fujian carrier with "incremental improvements." Nick Childs, senior ...

Adding nuclear-powered carriers to its fleet would ... Sea trials hadn’t even started for the new Fujian aircraft carrier in March when Yuan Huazhi, political commissar for China’s People ...

The new Fujian was a bigger capability jump ... new class of carriers.Pu Haiyang/Xinhua via Getty Images A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier would extend China's naval reach.

Related stories The first American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ... China has three carriers, the operational Liaoning and Shandong and the Fujian, which is in sea trials.

A nuclear-powered carrier would be a major step toward ... Both, however, featured a ski jump for aircraft launch. The new Fujian was a bigger capability jump. It is larger and features a modern ...