{"id":72603,"date":"2025-11-09T13:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=72603"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:27:37","slug":"fujian-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fujian-aircraft-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Fujian Aircraft Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Fujian Aircraft Carrier Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After extensive trials, the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)\u00a0 recently inducted a Fujian aircraft carrier.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Fujian Aircraft Carrier<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span><b> China\u2019s third aircraft carrier<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and its most advanced one yet.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China already has two <\/span><b>other carriers: the Liaoning and Shandong.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fujian is China\u2019s<\/span><b> first domestically designed and built <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aircraft carrier.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this addition, <\/span><b>China now boasts the second largest number of such ships<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the world, though it still <\/span><b>lags far behind the 11 operated by the US <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Fujian Aircraft Carrier <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fujian is <\/span><b>China&#8217;s first aircraft carrier with a catapult launch system<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which means it can <\/span><b>launch heavy and fully loaded warplanes,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including an<\/span><b> early-warning and control plane.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That allows the carrier to <\/span><b>operate against distant targets while far out at sea,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> since it doesn&#8217;t have to rely on land-based reconnaissance aircraft to detect threats.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its planes can also carry <\/span><b>more arms and fuel, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">boosting their range and firepower.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s also the<\/span><b> second carrier<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the world <\/span><b>with an electromagnetic catapult launch system, after America&#8217;s <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">newest carrier, the <\/span><b>USS Gerald R. Ford.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, China\u2019s carriers are still <\/span><b>not nuclear-powered, which limits how far<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and how long <\/span><b>they can sail.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estimates put the Fujian&#8217;s <\/span><b>operational range at 8,000 to 10,000 nautical miles.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a<\/span><b> flat flight deck.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fujian has a full-load displacement of more than 80,000 tons.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China has not disclosed <\/span><b>how many planes Fujian can carry, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but experts<\/span><b> estimate it is 40 to 60<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, compared with 60 to 70 on US ships.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Fujian has <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">two aircraft elevators <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(versus <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">three on the USS Ford<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), a smaller flight deck, and <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">three catapults rather than four,<\/b> <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">meaning US carriers can launch planes more quickly.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/china-new-aircraft-carrier-fujian-10353823\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>IE<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fujian is China\u2019s third and most advanced aircraft carrier, the first built entirely at home, placing China second only to the US in carrier strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3619,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-72603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-fujian-aircraft-carrier","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}