{"id":192161,"date":"2009-05-03T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/03\/chinese-move-aircraft-carrier-possibly-for-refit\/"},"modified":"2009-05-03T05:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T10:52:00","slug":"chinese-move-aircraft-carrier-possibly-for-refit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/03\/chinese-move-aircraft-carrier-possibly-for-refit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Move Aircraft Carrier, Possibly for Refit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img91.imageshack.us\/img91\/4641\/3966ec009a47bd2dc857026.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>The partially completed Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag was sold by the Ukraine to China a few years back, and it was thought that it would be converted to a casino.<\/p>\n<p>Well Galrahn came across <a href=\"http:\/\/informationdissemination.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/if-chinese-aircraft-carrier-moves-2.html\">photos of the ship being moved across the Dalian shipyard<\/a> in what appears to be a prelude toward bringing the hull up to operational standards.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that it will never see operational service, but that it will be used for training and development of an indigenous carrier capability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The partially completed Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag was sold by the Ukraine to China a few years back, and it was thought that it would be converted to a casino. Well Galrahn came across photos of the ship being moved across the Dalian shipyard in what appears to be a prelude toward bringing the hull &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-192161","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\/192161"}],"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=192161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}