SCMP: China ‘ready to build bigger warships’ as first home-grown carrier starts sea trial
New vessel is an upgrade to the Liaoning, a retrofitted Soviet-era aircraft carrier
China is ready to build bigger warships, its naval shipyard said as the first domestically built aircraft carrier began a sea trial early on Sunday.
The new warship was a collaboration between civilian contractors and researchers and the defence industry, Hu Wenming, chairman of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, told state television on Sunday. He said more than 70 per cent of the companies involved in the warship project were from civilian sectors.
The new aircraft carrier left the shipyard in northeastern Dalian at 6.45am, Xinhua reported, sailing out of the port half an hour later in heavy fog to put its home-grown power and propulsion systems to the test at sea for the first time.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- May 13, 2018
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