{"id":445724,"date":"2026-06-04T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/carrier-based-fighter-jets-navies\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:00:20","slug":"the-worlds-largest-navies-by-number-of-carrier-based-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=445724","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Largest Navies By Number Of Carrier-Based Fighter Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of the world&#8217;s largest navies by the number of carrier-based fighter jets is essentially a story of the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58652\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>US Navy<\/span><\/span> and the rest. It is also a story of the rise of China and the fading out of Russian\/Soviet fighter jets as carrier-capable aircraft. Three navies operate Russian\/Soviet-derived carrier-based jets: China, Russia, and India. China and India are now looking to deploy more advanced domestic or French designs, while Russia no longer has an operational aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy has around 85% of the world&#8217;s carrier-based fighter jets, while China is rapidly building up a carrier fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2759,776,748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-carrier","category-dassault-rafale","category-f-35"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445725,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445724\/revisions\/445725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}