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The Type 002, or Shandong, is China's first domestically produced aircraft carrier. Construction began in November 2013 at the Dalian Shipyard and the ship was launched on 26 April 2017. After being fitted out, China's first domestically produced aircraft carrier underwent nine sea trials over the course of 18 months, starting from May 2018.
The flight deck has three electromagnetic catapults (EM catapults) and an angled landing area with arresting gear. [6] As of at least 2024, EM catapults are the most sophisticated aircraft launch technology and are only used on the Fujian and the USS Gerald R. Ford.
[12] [13] In October 2015, the first definitive signs of the vessel's role appeared when construction of a hangar deck began on the hull. [13] In December 2015, a Chinese defense ministry spokesman confirmed that the ship was an aircraft carrier, stating that the design and construction work was under way. [14]
China’s newest, largest and most-advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, took a big step to joining the world’s largest naval fleet on Wednesday as it set out from Shanghai for its first sea ...
China said it launched its newest and most advanced aircraft carrier from a shipyard in Shanghai. The Fujian is the first to be built indigenously in the country and once operational, it would ...
Liaoning (16; Chinese: 辽宁舰; pinyin: Liáoníng Jiàn) is a Chinese Type 001 aircraft carrier.The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force, she was originally classified as a training ship, intended to allow the Navy to experiment, train and gain familiarity with aircraft carrier operations.
The new Chinese aircraft are not the first modern tailless designs. ... that allows fighter jets to land on its deck. China's first amphibious assault ships, the type 075, launched in 2019 ...
H-6H – Land-attack cruise missile carrier H-6(modernized) Xi'an: Active: Strategic bomber, modernized H-6 H-6K – Modernized H-6 with new engines, larger air intakes, re-designed flight deck and large dielectric nose radome H-6M – Cruise missile carrier, fitted with terrain-following system and four under-wing hardpoints for weapons carriage