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Home» News»China’s 2nd Aircraft Carrier Type 002 ‘Shandong’ Commissioned with PLAN

China’s 2nd Aircraft Carrier Type 002 ‘Shandong’ Commissioned with PLAN

China’s first domestically built aircraft carrier, "Shandong" (penant number 17), was delivered and commissioned today in to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese navy) in Sanya, South China’s Hainan Province.

Xavier Vavasseur 17 Dec 2019

This is the PLAN’s 2nd aircraft carrier but the first one fully designed and built locally by the engineers of the 701 Institute of the CSIC group on the basis of Project 1134.5 Varyag (known as Liaoning today and in service with the PLAN). It was previously known as “Type 002”.

The aircraft carrier received a grand commissioning ceremony at a naval base in Sanya in presence of President Xi Jinping.

China's 2nd aircraft carrier, the country's first domestically built one, was named Shandong (hull 17), and was commissioned into the Chinese Navy on Tuesday. It is based in Sanya of Hainan Island, at the doorstep of the #SouthChinaSea #ChinaDefense https://t.co/pdNTxgSvsI pic.twitter.com/5yeYnpAt0F

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) December 17, 2019

Construction of Shandong began in November 2013. It was launched in April 2017 at the Dalian Shipyard, Northeast China’s Liaoning Province.

Having a displacement of around 40,000-60,000 tons and using a similar ski-jump flight deck as the Liaoning, the conventional-powered Shandong is equipped with more advanced electronic devices and control and command system, and built with an optimized superstructure and internal layout, after gaining actual-user experiences following the Liaoning’s commissioning in 2012.

According to Chinese media, Shandong airwing can carry 36 J-15 fighter jets, compared to the Liaoning’s 24.

First clear images of the Type 002 carrier's commissioning into PLAN service as the number '17' and named as "Shandong".

(Images via CCTV-1) pic.twitter.com/ZwckncO5W5

— @Rupprecht_A (@RupprechtDeino) December 17, 2019
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Posted by : Xavier Vavasseur
Xavier is based in Paris, France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Xavier has been covering naval defense topics for nearly a decade.

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