Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China showed its newest aircraft carrier launching military aircraft with an electromagnetic catapult system. Among the aircraft ...

Hong Kong and Seoul (CNN) — China’s latest and most capable aircraft carrier has used its new electromagnetic catapult to successfully launch three types of aircraft, according to Chinese state media, ...

At first glance, this might look like any other catapult launch. But a few seconds later, something goes terribly wrong. The jet veers off course, the pilots eject, and the aircraft crashes into the ...

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Chinese President Xi Jinping personally presided over the commissioning of his country's most advanced aircraft carrier to date, equipped with a cutting-edge launch catapult that until now was ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the commissioning of its third aircraft carrier, China now boasts the second largest number of such ships in the world, though it still lags far behind the 11 operated by the ...