The Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class carriers can hold up to 72 aircraft total. This includes room for 36 F-35B fighter jets plus helicopters.

MiG-29 fighter jets, the strike fighter aircraft of the Indian Navy, use the short landing strip of the aircraft carrier, both during the day and at night, to take off and land

China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy carrier, two former US carrier officers say, a substantial combat limitation for a vessel meant to revolutionize Beijing’s fleet.

The British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has been deployed with a naval task group on an eight-month mission since April.

Aircraft carriers are the largest and most technologically advanced weapons of war. While they're impressive naval vessels, they're also mobile airports, and without an aircraft carrier's large number of support jets and helicopters, it's little more than ...