Japan needed more aircraft carriers ... Unfortunately, an opposing plan emerged that envisioned Shinano not as a true aircraft carrier but new type of vessel, a carrier support ship.

The US landed an F-35 stealth fighter on Japan's new aircraft carrier for the first time. US and Japanese forces are integrating the short-takeoff/vertical landing F-35B onto the JS Kaga.

Some experts consider the vessel a quasi-aircraft carrier. -This follows Japan’s strategic move to upgrade its Izumo-class vessels to operate fixed-wing aircraft. Though officially termed ...

U.S. Navy pilots are preparing for the USS George Washington’s inaugural patrol from its new homeport in Japan, conducting ...

Fighter aircraft have landed aboard Japan’s newest aircraft carrier for the first time ... for America’s National Public Radio system in New York and Hawaii covering energy, economics and ...

However, the country scrapped all of its carriers after its defeat, and since Japan adopted ... complement of 90 aircraft, which is so much more than the 28 helicopters the new Kaga is designed ...

On Monday night, the People’s Liberation Army Navy aircraft carrier CNS Shandong (17 ... is set to arrive at its new Japanese homeport later this month, according to Japanese officials.

Japan needed more aircraft carriers ... Unfortunately, an opposing plan emerged that envisioned Shinano not as a true aircraft carrier but new type of vessel, a carrier support ship.