{"id":32917,"date":"2018-10-29T17:28:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32917"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:28:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:58:22","slug":"worlds-largest-amphibious-aircraft-makes-maiden-flight-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worlds-largest-amphibious-aircraft-makes-maiden-flight-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s largest amphibious aircraft makes maiden flight in China\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/must-read-news-articles-december-25\/v\">World\u2019s largest amphibious aircraft makes maiden flight in China<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s domestically developed AG600, the world\u2019s largest amphibious aircraft, performed its maiden flight on Sunday from an airport on the shores of the South\u00a0 China Sea, the latest step in a military modernisation programme<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is an amphibious aircraft?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0amphibious aircraft\u00a0or\u00a0amphibian\u00a0is an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aircraft\">aircraft<\/a>\u00a0that can take off and land on both land and water<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 years <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>State-owned Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) has spent almost eight years developing the aircraft, which is roughly the size of a Boeing Co 737 and is designed to carry out marine rescues and battle forest fires<\/p>\n<p><strong>Potential uses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It can make round trips without refuelling from the southern island province of Hainan to James Shoal, claimed by China but which is located close to Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>State media has also noted its potential use in the South China Sea, where China, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Brunei all have overlapping claims<\/li>\n<li>Powered by four turboprop engines, the AG600 can carry 50 people during maritime search-and-rescue missions, and can scoop up 12 metric tons of water within 20 seconds for firefighting trips<\/li>\n<li>It can use conventional airports and also land and take-off from the sea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Military modernization programme<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China is in the midst of a massive military modernization programme, ranging from testing anti-satellite missiles to building stealth fighters and the country&#8217;s first indigenous aircraft carrier, to add to an existing one bought from Ukraine<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s largest amphibious aircraft makes maiden flight in China\u00a0 Context China\u2019s domestically developed AG600, the world\u2019s largest amphibious aircraft, performed its maiden flight on Sunday from an airport on the shores of the South\u00a0 China Sea, the latest step in a military modernisation programme What is an amphibious aircraft? An\u00a0amphibious aircraft\u00a0or\u00a0amphibian\u00a0is an\u00a0aircraft\u00a0that can take off&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worlds-largest-amphibious-aircraft-makes-maiden-flight-in-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World\u2019s largest amphibious aircraft makes maiden flight in China\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704361188},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}