China’s Military Advances With Aircraft Carrier Fighter Landings
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China achieved a military milestone when a homegrown fighter jet landed on its new aircraft carrier, the latest step in a modernization bid that’s recorded advances in submarines, cyber warfare and in outer space.
The J-15 fighter jet successfully landed on the Liaoning aircraft carrier, the official Xinhua news agency reported Nov. 24, citing unnamed People’s Liberation Army naval sources. The English-language China Daily ran a front-page photograph today of one of the jets taking off from the carrier.