An aircraft carrier is a warship designed to carry, launch, recover and support aircraft at sea, equipped with a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities that allow it to serve as a mobile, seago
Three steam catapult equipped aircraft carriers of various types—USS John C. Stennis, Charles de Gaulle (French Navy), USS John F. Kennedy along with the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean—and escort vessels, 2002
Chinese PLAN's electromagnetic catapult equipped aircraft carrier Fujian transiting the East China Sea, September 2025
Indian ski-jump based aircraft carriers INS Vikrant and INS Vikramaditya, June 2023
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (rear) and US Navy carrier USS Ronald Reagan conducting joint operations in the Persian Gulf, each with the CATOBAR configuration
Fujian is a Chinese conventionally powered aircraft carrier serving in the People's Liberation Army Navy. It is the third carrier of the Chinese aircraft carrier programme and the first of the Type 00
Fujian at the Jiangnan Shipyard in 2022
The flight deck of Fujian in November 2025