China to launch its largest and most advanced aircraft carrier—the Type 003. Photo: CSIS
Shanghai shipyard clears the docks ahead of expected carrier launch
- The Jiangnan yard, which resumed work in the middle of the city’s Covid lockdown, said that it had launched or floated five vessels this week
- The Type 003 warship is expected to be launched on Friday’s Dragon Boat Festival
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China to launch its largest and most advanced aircraft carrier—the Type 003. Photo: CSIS
Corrected [2:47pm, 2 Jun, 2022]
- [2:47pm, 2 Jun, 2022]
The photograph that initially ran with this story incorrectly suggested that the ship pictured was the Type 003, when in fact it showed another Chinese carrier.
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