Liaoning
Sign in to saveAlso known as Type 001 aircraft carrier, PLANS Liaoning, Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning
1988 Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier
Key facts
- Builders
- Dalian Shipbuilding Industry
- Operators
- People's Liberation Army Navy
- Preceded by
- Kiev class
- Succeeded by
- Type 002 Shandong
- Name
- Riga (1988) then Varyag (1990)
- Namesake
- City of Riga , Latvia (1988) then Varyag , named for the Varangians (1990), the name Varyag was then adopted by another cruiser .
- Builder
- Mykolaiv South Nevskoye Planning and Design Bureau
- Laid down
- 6 December 1985
- Launched
- 4 December 1988
- Fate
- Sold to a Chinese buyer, 1998 Transferred to the Chinese navy, 2002
- Cost
- US$ 120 Million (Former Ukraine)
- Commissioned
- 25 September 2012
- Motto
- ( Simplified Chinese :保卫祖国，勇争第一)：Defend the motherland, strive to be the first.
- Status
- In active service
- Badge
- See § Ship Emblem
- Class type
- Type 001, Kuznetsov -class aircraft carrier
- Type
- STOBAR aircraft carrier
- Displacement
- 43,000 tons, light 54,500 tons, normal 60,900 tons, full load
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Aircraft Carrier Liaoning CV-16.jpg
- Width
- 72
- Length
- 306
- Speed
- 29
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- native label
- 辽宁号航空母舰
- draft
- 10
- pennant number
- 16
- Commons category
- PLANS Liaoning (CV-16)
- beam
- 75
- date of official opening
- 1988-12-04
- name
- Liaoning
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Article
Liaoning (16; Chinese: 辽宁舰; pinyin: Liáoníng Jiàn) is a Chinese Type 001 aircraft carrier. The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force, she was originally classified as a training ship, intended to allow the Navy to experiment, train and gain familiarity with aircraft carrier operations. Following upgrades and additional training in late 2018, Chinese state media announced that the ship would shift to a combat role in 2019.
Originally laid down in 1985 for the Soviet Navy as the Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier Riga, she was launched on 4 December 1988 and renamed Varyag in 1990. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, construction was halted and the ship was put up for sale by Ukraine. The stripped hulk was purchased in 1998 and after much delay, towed to the Dalian naval shipyard in northeast China, arriving in 2002.