{"id":34080,"date":"2017-02-02T23:43:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T07:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/china-expected-to-launch-first-home-grown-aircraft-carrier-this-year"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:47:54","slug":"china-expected-to-launch-first-home-grown-aircraft-carrier-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/china-expected-to-launch-first-home-grown-aircraft-carrier-this-year","title":{"rendered":"China Expected To Launch First Home-Grown Aircraft Carrier This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-expected-to-launch-first-home-grown-aircraft-carrier-this-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/02\/02\/china-expected-to-launch-first-home-grown-aircraft-carrier\/\">Daily Caller<\/a><\/p>\n<p>China is making progress on its first indigenous aircraft carrier, the Shandong.<\/p>\n<p>After two years and nine months of construction, China\u2019s first domestically-built aircraft carrier is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy-defence\/article\/2066802\/beijings-second-aircraft-carrier-takes-shape-after-two\">taking shape<\/a>.\u201d The ship is under construction at a shipyard in Dalian, where the superstructure has already been mounted onto the hull. The vessel is expected to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/articles\/analysis-chinese-aircraft-carrier-program-progressing-substantially-into-the-new-year\">launched<\/a> this year; however, it will probably be a few more years before the ship enters military service.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amtvmedia.com\/china-expected-to-launch-first-home-grown-aircraft-carrier-this-year\/\">http:\/\/www.amtvmedia.com\/china-expected-to-launch-first-home...this-year\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Caller China is making progress on its first indigenous aircraft carrier, the Shandong. After two years and nine months of construction, China\u2019s first domestically-built aircraft carrier is \u201ctaking shape.\u201d The ship is under construction at a shipyard in Dalian, where the superstructure has already been mounted onto the hull. The vessel is expected to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65212,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions\/65212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}