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Chinese aircraft carrier programme. Since the 1970s, China 's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has had ambitions to develop and operate aircraft carriers, and since 1985 has acquired four retired aircraft carriers for study; namely, the British-built Australian HMAS Melbourne and the ex- Soviet carriers Minsk, Kiev and Varyag.
Mar 31, 2024 · J-15B landing at land-based PLA training facility. Image via Twitter/X account “@sugar_wsnbn“, originally Chinese state media. Observable development on J-15D has been prolonged, with the configuration flying first in 2016. It remains unclear, to what degree the type will see introduction across China’s aircraft carrier fleet.
Mar 7, 2024 · Joe Saballa March 7, 2024. 1 minute read. China is in the process of developing its fourth aircraft carrier to rival the US fleet in the western Pacific, a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy admiral has announced. Speaking during an annual legislative meeting in Beijing, PLA Navy political commissar Yuan Huazhi claimed that progress is on ...
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The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) provides reliable public reporting on how and where the PLA has been operating in the East China and Philippine Seas. 3 Based on this, the PLAN might have achieved another naval aviation milestone: blue-water aircraft carrier operations. “Blue-water ops” is shorthand for conducting carrier fixed ...
Oct 27, 2023 · The Pentagon’s annual assessment of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) – entitled the 2023 Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China – was published on 19 October. This eagerly awaited document was damning in its analysis of the Chinese military’s behaviour: “Over the last 18 months, the ...
Mar 6, 2024 · Update on NPC sidelines by PLA Navy admiral and political overseer Yuan Huazhi represents first official confirmation of Beijing’s efforts to build a fourth aircraft carrier.
Jun 25, 2022 · China's first domestically built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, was delivered to the People's Liberation Army Navy and placed in active service on Dec. 17 at a naval port in Sanya.
