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12:00, 18-May-2018
China's first homemade aircraft carrier concludes maiden sea trial
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China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier has concluded its maiden sea trial on Friday, and is returning to Dalian Shipyard in northeast China's Liaoning Province, according to CCTV reports.
The five-day sea trial, starting from May 13, tested the carrier’s equipment, and has achieved the desired aim.
China's first homemade aircraft carrier concludes maiden sea trial on May 18, 2018. /CCTV phopo
China's first homemade aircraft carrier concludes maiden sea trial on May 18, 2018. /CCTV phopo
It is also China's second aircraft carrier after the Liaoning, a refitted Soviet Union-made carrier put into commission in the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy in 2012.
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