China’s first aircraft carrier – a former Soviet ship bought from Ukraine and refurbished – entered service on Tuesday, the defence ministry in Beijing said in a statement.
It named the vessel as the Liaoning, after a northeastern province, saying: “Having the aircraft carrier enter the ranks will be of important significance in raising the overall fighting capacity of our nation’s navy to a modern level.”
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It's a carrier without aircraft atleast thru 2017. Paper tiger you can say …
"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/world/asia/china-shows-off-an-aircraft-carrier-but-experts-are-skeptical.html?ref=asia".
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I have to give the Chinese credit to making improvements to the Soviets junk. Nothing wrong with re-furbishing. As they say in Russia someones junk, could be someones treasure. Vodka anyone?
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