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Russian military-industrial complex news network said in its report on February 28: China plans to build two new aircraft carriers, one conventional and the other nuclear.
The first will be built at Dalian Shipyard of China Shipping Industry Corporation while the other will be built at Jiangnan Shipyard, Changxing Island, Shanhai.
Western media believe the first aircraft carrier codenamed Project 001A and Warship No. 018 will be 5% bigger in displacement than the Liaoning and have two steam catapults. The second codenamed Project 002 will be a nuclear one with a displacement 5% bigger than the first. It will be equivalent to USS Kitty Hawk in size and displacement with a full load displacement of 70,000 tons, 10,000 tons more than the Liaoning and have 4 steam catapults. In all China will build 4 new aircraft carriers.
Both new aircraft carriers are designed by China on the basis of the technological information of Soviet unfinished aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk.
Source: huanqiu.com “Russia says China’s homegrown aircraft carrier named the Shandong with displacement 5% bigger than the Liaoning”