New Zealand and Japanese navies. Liaoning, the PLA Navy’s first aircraftcarrier, was modified and restructured from the Soviet-era Kuznetsov-class carrier and commissioned in September 2012 ...
Japan and the United States kicked off on Wednesday 10 days of joint military drills involving tens of thousands of personnel, a week after China held large-scale exercises around Taiwan.
The Liaoning aircraftcarrier (Type 001) was spotted north of Taiwan and near Japan. The Japanese Ministry ... for night-time operation for a group of new fighter jet pilots during a combat ...
On September 13, China Central Television reported that earlier this year a new ... aircraftcarriers, both use an upwardly curved "ski jump" ramp instead of catapults for fighter jets to take ...