china aircraft carriernstead it has been upgraded at China's Dalian naval shipyard with combat sensors and defensive weapons and painted in the colours of the People's Liberation Army. For several years foreigners have been kept out of the area of Dalian where the work has taken place. But the existence of a 67,500 tonne vessel is not easily concealed and in recent months photographs have appeared in state-run media.Chen Bingde, the chief of China's military general staff, has gone a step further in an interview published in the Hong Kong Commercial Daily (translated link), saying the 300m long carrier "is being built but has not been completed". He became the first Chinese military leader, who officially confirmed that the construction aircraft carriers, pass the "Comments".
It is a reconstructed Chinese specialists heavy aircraft carrying cruiser "Varangian", which was acquired in 1998 from Ukraine in an unfinished form for $ 20 million alleged "conversion into a tourist attraction." "Unlike some other countries, China will never send your own aircraft carrier in the territorial waters of other states, as a policy of defensive nature," – added the assistant chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Qi Jianguo. According to military experts and Taiwanese intelligence, unfinished at the shipyard in the port of Dalian Varyag, which is already installed radars and other equipment will be able to go to sea until the end of this year. It is assumed that, initially, this ship will be used as a base for training pilots of carrier-based aircraft. Aircraft carrier "Varangian" was commissioned for the Soviet Navy, but was never completed. Displacement of ship length of 300 meters and a width of 72
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