: :inin Kyiv (EET)

China says it is building its second aircraft carrier


BEIJING (AP) — China says it is building its second aircraft carrier, this time entirely with domestic technology.
Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Yang Yujun told reporters at a news conference Thursday that the 50,000-ton vessel is being built in the northern port of Dalian.
China currently operates one refurbished aircraft carrier purchased from Ukraine but armed and equipped in China. That carrier has yet to take on its full aviation complement.
Yang said the second carrier is being built entirely with domestic technology but had drawn on China’s experience refitting its first carrier, the Liaoning.
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Source: KXAN

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