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China Sends First Domestically Built Aircraft Carrier on Sea Trials – Vows to Build More

May 14, 2018 C:\Users\dougk\OneDrive\Documents\Websites\Fighter Sweep\Images\2018 May\chinese_aircraft_carrier_sea_trials
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China sent it’s yet to be named, first domestically built aircraft carrier out on sea trials while stating they plan to build more.

The new aircraft carrier left the shipyard in northeastern Dalian at 6.45am, Xinhua reported, sailing out of the port half an hour later in heavy fog to put its home-grown power and propulsion systems to the test at sea for the first time.

Launched in April last year, the 65,000-tonne Type 001A has yet to be named and is an upgrade to the Liaoning, China’s only operational aircraft carrier – a retrofitted Soviet-era Admiral Kuznetsov-class multi-role vessel that went into service in 2012.

“We have already developed a team of experts in the research, design and construction [of aircraft carriers], and their average age is just 36,” Hu said. “In the future, if the country wants to develop any type of aircraft carrier, we have the capability to do it.” – South China Morning Post

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