A first: Taiwan spots new PLA aircraft carrier sailing in Taiwan Strait - Focus Taiwan
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Taiwan's military has spotted China's new aircraft carrier, the Fujian, for the first time since it was commissioned making a transit through the Taiwan Strait and released a surveillance photograph of it.
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    8 months ago

    It is China’s third aircraft carrier and China’s first designed domestically and also the first capable of more advanced catapult-assisted take-offs – a powerful launch system to rapidly accelerate fixed-wing planes for short-distance flight.