{"id":2865,"date":"2017-12-21T10:46:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T10:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2017-12-21T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T10:46:04","slug":"china-finalising-design-for-second-homemade-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/12\/21\/china-finalising-design-for-second-homemade-aircraft-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA FINALISING DESIGN FOR SECOND HOMEMADE AIRCRAFT CARRIER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-406\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/10\/CV16-Liaoning-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Asia Times<\/p>\n<p>Sources within the People\u2019s Liberation Army have revealed that the design for China\u2019s second homemade carrier is \u201cnearing its end,\u201d pending Beijing\u2019s approval, and construction is expected to commence within a year.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation has been rife that the PLA is now capable of placing miniaturised nuclear reactors to generate impetus for the new carrier; however, the Hong Kong-based Kanwa Defense Review notes in its January 2018 issue that the second carrier, which is likely to bear the codename Type 003, will be a steam-propelled seagoing airbase, like its Type 002 predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Image Sourced : Xinhua<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/china-finalising-design-second-homemade-aircraft-carrier\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Asia Times Sources within the People\u2019s Liberation Army have revealed that the design for China\u2019s second homemade carrier is \u201cnearing its end,\u201d pending Beijing\u2019s approval, and construction is expected to commence within a year. Speculation has been rife that the PLA is now capable of placing miniaturised nuclear reactors to generate impetus for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/12\/21\/china-finalising-design-for-second-homemade-aircraft-carrier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINA FINALISING DESIGN FOR SECOND HOMEMADE AIRCRAFT CARRIER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[80,1740],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-china","tag-peoples-liberation-army","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}