04 June 2020
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- China’s First Home-Grown Aircraft Carrier Is At Sea for the First Time Since It Joined The Fleet
China’s First Home-Grown Aircraft Carrier Is At Sea for the First Time Since It Joined The Fleet
Naval training was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, but the Shandong – China’s first domestically built aircraft carrier – is now carrying out its first exercises at sea since being commissioned late last year. Collin Koh, a Research Fellow from RSIS, said the new ship needs to test its systems. “After all, the Shandong is a newly built ship. While China has previous experience with carriers from operating the Liaoning, it’s to be remembered that the Liaoning is after all an unfinished Soviet carrier that was purchased from Ukraine and then refurbished and modernised.”
IDSS / Online
Last updated on 04/06/2020
