At a news conference on the last day of 2015, China’s Ministry of National Defence confirmed one of its worst-kept secrets: construction is under way on the country’s second aircraft carrier, and its first to be produced indigenously. Official details remain scarce, but point to a ship that is a cautious evolution of China’s first carrier, the Liaoning. This vessel was originally intended to see service in the Soviet Navy as the Varyag and was acquired from Ukraine when only partially completed.
https://www.iiss.org/en/militarybalanceblog/blogsections/2016-629e/february-f0ed/china-and-india-indigenous-carrier-comparison-562b
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