Details of new Chinese aircraft carrier revealed in sea trial footage

marking the PLA Navy’s 70th anniversary on Tuesday, a CCTV report has offered a rare glimpse of the vessel in footage taken during its most recent sea trial.

The new warship, the Type 001A, is the first Chinese-built aircraft carrier. Its design is based on the, an unfinished Soviet Kutznetsov-class vessel Beijing bought from Ukraine in 1998 and retrofitted. The warship is also seen moving at high speed, and it shows the bridge and ski-jump flight deck without any aircraft on board.

According to the report, the warship “underwent full testing and demonstration of its command system and combat capabilities” during the recent sea trial, its fifth so far, from February 27 to March 5 in the Yellow Sea off the coast of Dalian, where it was built.But military experts said the aircraft carrier may not be fully combat ready and it was not expected to join the naval parade this week.

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