Explanation: Fujian Aircraft Carrier

• Fujian is China’s first ‘fully domestically developed and constructed’ aircraft carrier.
• It has been named after China’s eastern coastal province which lies across from Taiwan.
• It joins two other carriers currently operated by China: Shandong, commissioned in 2019 and the Liaoning, bought second-hand from Ukraine in 1998.
• The Fujian’s displacement is 80,000 tonnes, much more than the existing Chinese carriers, and comparable to the U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.
• It also has the latest launch technology — the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), first developed by the U.S. Navy.

Source: EPIC July 2022