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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 11/26/2012 : 04:42:50
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China's navy has successfully passed an important landmark. It has launched its first multipurpose jet from its first aircraft carrier. And then launched it as well: (CNN) -- China announced Sunday that it had landed a fighter jet on the deck of an aircraft carrier for the first time, but it may be years before the ship is fully operational.
China's "first generation multi-purpose carrier-borne fighter jet," known as the J-15, successfully completed its first landing on the Liaoning, an aircraft carrier China built using an abandoned Soviet hull, according to China's official news agency Xinhua.
The J-15's capabilities are comparable to the Russian Su-33 jet and the U.S. F-18, Xinhua reported. The Chinese-designed jet can "carry multi-type anti-ship, air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, as well as precision-guided bombs, the report said.
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China lands first jet on aircraft carrier
