The official delivery and commissioning of China’s first aircraft carrier “Liaoning ship” has attracted great attention from all sectors of the society. The reporters from the PLA Daily connected military experts and invited them to interpret related issues of the official commissioning of China’s first aircraft carrier.
Rear Admiral Yin Zhuo, director of the Information Expert Committee under the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), said that the official commissioning of China’s first aircraft carrier is of great significance to China’s national defense.
The aircraft carrier will make it possible that China’s future naval surface battle group will have a real core. In the past, China’s naval aviation force was mainly based on shore and China’s warships were equipped with helicopters only, without much difference from the PLA Air Force. In the future, the naval aviation force will embark on the road of synchronous development of carrier-based aviation force and shore-based aviation force.
Rear Admiral Yin Zhuo commented that the commissioning of the first aircraft carrier means a major change, i.e. China’s naval force structure will be adjusted to the marshalling style with aircraft carrier formation at the core.
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