Tag: Type 001

China’s first operational conventionally-powered aircraft carrier, named Liaoning and commissioned in 2012. Based on the hull of the unfinished ex-Soviet Navy aircraft carrier Varyag but fitted with Chinese systems, carrying 30 to 40 jets and helicopters.

Type 001 aircraft carrier Liaoning

by SinoX, posted in Analysis, Sea

China purchased the unfinished ex-Soviet Navy aircraft carrier Varyag from Ukraine in 1998 and finally received the vessel in 2002. After some extensive refurbishments at the Dalian Shipyard in northern China, the vessel was commissioned into the PLA Navy in September 2012 as Liaoning, with hull number ‘16’ and the class name Type 001. The … Continue reading Type 001 aircraft carrier Liaoning