TIL Desk/World/Beijing/ China plans to launch its third aircraft carrier within the next two years and it would be combat-ready by 2025, official media reported on Thursday, two days after Beijing operationalised its 2nd aircraft carrier.
The third aircraft carrier may have electromagnetic catapult and stealth fighter jets, a report by Ordnance Industry Science Technology, a Xi’an-based periodical focused on the national defence industry said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched the country’s second aircraft carrier on Tuesday from the Sanya naval base, located in the South China Sea coast.
The ship named after China’s Shandong province is the first domestically-built ship. China currently has one aircraft carrier Liaoning, a re-fit of the Soviet era ship which was commissioned in 2012.
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