China’s Aircraft Carrier Battlegroup: Nearly Ready for an Actual Battle?
China’s Aircraft Carrier Battlegroup: Nearly Ready for an Actual Battle?
National Interest (US)
19 April 2021
For the first time, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) deployed a Type 055 destroyer with an aircraft carrier group during a sea trial earlier this month. “The Type 055 has a significant improvement over the preceding classes of destroyers, in particular the Type 052D, boasting a much larger weapons payload that gives unprecedented defensive and offensive capabilities to the PLA Navy,” Dr Collin Koh, a Research Fellow from RSIS, told South China Morning Post.
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Last updated on 04/05/2021
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