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Type 004 aircraft carrier
Chinese aircraft carrier in development
Type 004 aircraft carrier
The Type 004 aircraft carrier is an upcoming class of supercarriers for the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy. The yet-unnamed lead ship of the class has been under construction at the Dalian Shipyard since 2024,. It is the fourth aircraft carrier of the Chinese aircraft carrier programme and the third to be built from the keel up by China itself. Like the proceeding Type 003 carrier Fujian, the Type 004 carriers will be capable of catapult-assisted takeoff but arrested recovery (CATOBAR) operations via the same DC-supercapacitor electromagnetic catapult system jointly developed by the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Unlike the conventionally-powered Fujian, the Type 004 will be much larger and also likely to be the first Chinese surface warship to feature nuclear marine propulsion. China hoped to complete the carrier by the late 2020s. The US Defense Department stated in their December 2025 China Military Power Report that the PLAN aimed...
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