{"id":187998,"date":"2011-01-02T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/02\/china-expected-to-field-first-carrier-in-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-01-02T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T00:51:00","slug":"china-expected-to-field-first-carrier-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/02\/china-expected-to-field-first-carrier-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"China Expected to Field First Carrier in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img510.imageshack.us\/img510\/8624\/dalian201220108217068.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img510.imageshack.us\/img510\/8624\/dalian201220108217068.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Varyag is out of dry dock<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It looks like the Chinese will be <a href=\"http:\/\/defense-update.com\/wp\/20110102_varyag_in_china.html\">launching their first carrier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s made from the hull (no equipment or propulsion when bought as scrap) of the old unfinished Soviet STOBAR aircraft carrier Varyag, and while I doubt that it will ever serve in anything remotely resembling a combat capability, neither did the USS Langley, though it did see service as a seaplane tender. <\/p>\n<p>What is important here is that it means that China will be developing equipment, doctrine, and training for a carrier borne air wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size The Varyag is out of dry dock It looks like the Chinese will be launching their first carrier this year. It&#8217;s made from the hull (no equipment or propulsion when bought as scrap) of the old unfinished Soviet STOBAR aircraft carrier Varyag, and while I doubt that it will ever serve &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1170,1006,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-china","category-military","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}