{"id":2915,"date":"2018-01-09T15:27:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T15:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2018-01-09T15:27:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T15:27:22","slug":"china-kicks-off-construction-of-new-supercarrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/01\/09\/china-kicks-off-construction-of-new-supercarrier\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA KICKS OFF CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SUPERCARRIER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CV17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2916\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CV17-1024x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CV17-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CV17-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CV17-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CV17-560x305.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CV17-260x142.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CV17-160x87.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CV17.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : The Diplomat<\/p>\n<p>By Franz-Stefan Gady<\/p>\n<p>China began construction of its third aircraft carrier at a Shanghai shipyard in 2017, according to sources close to the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA), the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports this week.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard Group reportedly received the go-ahead for the construction of the new supercarrier in March 2017. \u201c[T]he shipyard is still working on the carrier\u2019s hull, which is expected to take about two years,\u201d one of the sources said. \u201cBuilding the new carrier will be more complicated and challenging than the other two ships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Initial work on China\u2019s second domestically designed carrier (and third carrier overall), the 85,000-100,000 ton Type 002 (CV 18), purportedly began in February 2016, although there are contradictory reports about the precise date. (PLA spokespeople first announced in 2015 that construction of the new carrier had kicked off.)<\/p>\n<p>Image Sourced : China Defence Blog<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2018\/01\/china-kicks-off-construction-of-new-supercarrier\/?utm_content=buffere691a&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : The Diplomat By Franz-Stefan Gady China began construction of its third aircraft carrier at a Shanghai shipyard in 2017, according to sources close to the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA), the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports this week. Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard Group reportedly received the go-ahead for the construction of the new supercarrier&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/01\/09\/china-kicks-off-construction-of-new-supercarrier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINA KICKS OFF CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SUPERCARRIER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[80,1740,1757,1758],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-china","tag-peoples-liberation-army","tag-shanghai-shipyard","tag-type-002-cv-18","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","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=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}