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China Moving Full Speed Ahead in Construction of Aircraft Carriers

posted by CoolHand on Monday October 05 2015, @09:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-longer-isolationist dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Satellite photos analyzed by IHS Janes show China has dramatically ramped up efforts to construct a second aircraft carrier—the first to be built indigenously there. While the new ship will likely not be a match for US aircraft carriers, it is important for a number of reasons, and representative of China's ambitions to be a naval superpower. The ship is in "advanced state of construction" in a Dailan shipyard, according to analysis of commercial satellite images by IHS Jane's. And China's goal is reportedly to launch the new carrier by this December (in time for Mao Zedong's 122nd birthday), and outfit it by the end of next year.

China's plans to build new carriers have not exactly been a secret. Construction of the ship started in March, and was confirmed to be a carrier by Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) officials speaking to Hong Kong Commercial Daily. The new carrier, called the Type 001A, will include technology currently only used aboard US carriers, according to PLA Navy senior officers: an electromagnetic catapult that will allow aircraft to be launched with greater fuel and weapons loads. That would put China into a very exclusive club.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2015, @01:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 06 2015, @01:08AM (#245903)

    Same goes the other way, and then Mr Yankee? I can guess who will be howling tears and murder...

    The big question is how did they leapfrog so quickly ... OPM leak is the tip of the iceberg. All the IP was suctioned out of the USA years over the 2000's.