Japan's Defense Ministry says the Maritime Self-Defense Force has been monitoring the movements of the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning and accompanying vessels near Okinawa since Friday.

Join us as we dive into the complex, precise world of naval aviation and carrier launch operations, revealing how every takeoff is the product of engineering, training, and split-second coordination.

Aircraft carriers have been in use since Britain's HMS Furious sailed in 1917, and over more than a century a wide range of aircraft have taken off and landed on them. While fighter jets make up a ...