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| Ulyanovsk class Aircraft Carrier (Wiki Info) |
According to china.org.cn, the United States recently acquired satellite imagery showing an aircraft carrier currently being assembled in military shipyard of Shanghai.
China's current and only aircraft carrier was recently delivered to the Chinese navy and training in air operations has just started.
The new aircraft carrier supposedly in construction would be the first home made carrier for the nation. However according to other reports, China would have acquired blue prints from Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk. Ulyanovsk was the first of a class of never completed Soviet nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
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