BEIJING (AFP) – China will not remain the world's only major nation without an aircraft carrier indefinitely, state press Monday cited the nation's defence minister as telling his Japanese counterpart.
Liang Guanglie made the remarks to visiting Japanese Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada on Friday, the Oriental Morning Post said, in discussions ...
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China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is close to reaching a decision on the procurement of aircraft for its aircraft carrier programme, Russian industry sources have told Jane's.
Negotiations between the PLAN and the Komsomolsk-na-Amure Aviation Production Association (KnAAPO) in Russia have been held intermittently for several years, with the Chinese ...
Written by admin on March 8th, 2009
NEW DELHI, March 8 (Xinhua) -- India is rejuvenating its aircraft carrier INS Viraat, the flagship of the Indian navy, in the southern port city of Kochi in preparation for its golden jubilee, said the local daily The Hindu on Sunday.
The aircraft carrier is being tended by a team of ...
Written by admin on March 6th, 2009
Speaking on the fringes of the National People's Congress, China's rubber stamp parliament, the official added that China now had the technology to build an indigenous carrier and should use it.
"Building aircraft carriers is a symbol of an important nation. It is very necessary," said Admiral Hu Yanlin in an ...
Written by admin on February 27th, 2009
MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's new-generation aircraft carrier will be nuclear powered and have a displacement of up to 60,000 metric tons, a United Shipbuilding Corporation executive said on Friday.
Vice Adm. Anatoly Shlemov, the company's head of defense contracts, said the new carrier was still at the drawing ...
