China’s first entirely home-built aircraft carrier leaves Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning Province for sea trials Sunday, May 13. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP)Beijing (AP) — China’s first entirely home-built aircraft carrier began sea trials Sunday in a sign of the growing sophistication of the country’s domestic arms industry.
The still-unnamed ship left dock in the northern port of Dalian at 7:00 a.m. to “test the reliability and stability of its propulsion and other system,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The Liaoning provincial maritime safety bureau issued an order for shipping to avoid a section of ocean southeast of the city …read more
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