China's First Built Aircraft Carrier Is Completing Its Second Set Of Sea Trials

China's first domestically developed aircraft carrier, the Type 001A, is seen at a port in Dalian.REUTERS/Stringer

SCMP: China’s first home-grown aircraft carrier on final sea run to combat readiness

Vessel could complete test to go into service in time for the 70th anniversary of the people’s republic, experts say

The first Chinese-built aircraft carrier is entering the home straight to combat readiness with the start of a final sea trial that could last up to a year, according to observers.

Just three months after its maiden voyage, the 65,000-tonne Type 001A vessel left a shipyard in Dalian in the northeastern province of Liaoning on Sunday towed by several tugboats, according to photographs and footage posted online by the Chinese military.

The aircraft carrier headed out to the Yellow Sea two days after a Type 055 guided-missile destroyer, the region’s most advanced and biggest destroyer, and the carrier’s likely escort, also started its maiden sea trial.

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