Seems like the above information is wrong. Looks like Fujian will return to Shanghai on the 11th of June. Posted by @foolsball on Twitter.
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Seems like the above information is wrong. Looks like Fujian will return to Shanghai on the 11th of June. Posted by @foolsball on Twitter.
Chinese Navy three aircraft carriers.
Fujian returned to Jiangnan today after her 18-day long 2nd sea trial. Posted by @琴石2022 on Weibo.
How common or unusual it is to have a second sea trial that seems quite long?
In Yankee today’s article, he wrote: In the history of chinese aircraft carrier navigation tests, it is not the first time that a single sea trial has lasted more than 20 days. For example, the 9th sea trial of the Liaoning lasted 25 days, and the 7th sea trial of the Shandong lasted 23 days. But this is only the second sea trial of the Fujian, and it will last more than 20 days - equivalent to the sum of the second and third sea trials of the Liaoning.
The Liaoning conducted 10 sea trials in 13 months from its first sea trial in August 2011 to its commissioning in September 2012, and it took more than five years for it to be declared operational in November 2016. China's second aircraft carrier, the Shandong, conducted nine sea trials in 19 months from its first sea trial in May 2018 to its commissioning in December 2019, and it took more than five years for it to conduct high-intensity combat exercises in the Western Pacific before October 2023.