Taiwan reported China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier group sailing to the island’s south. The sighting came hours after the Chinese military put out a video saying it was “prepared for battle.”
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Sunday it was “on alert” after a Chinese aircraft carrier was detected to the south of the island.
The incident comes three days after Taiwan’s president angered Beijing during a speech to mark the self-ruled island’s National Day.
China considers Taiwan as part of its territory and tensions between the two have spiked in recent years over the near-constant deployment of Chinese ships to waters near the island.
This is the carrier the Ukrainians sold to the Chinese in the nineties, right?
It’s a sister ship to the Kuznetsov that is in an abysmal state in Russian hands.
The Wikipedia article about it is interesting. It was being constructed when the Soviet Union collapsed. The chinese bought it from Ukraine and finished the construction. So it’s got Soviet bones, but it’s not a Soviet ship
That jump ramp is very characteristic, that’s why I thought it might be a Kuznetsov relative.
I wonder if it also has the cruise missile battery built into the deck.