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Russian Su-27 intercepts NATO Portuguese Air Force P-3 Orion over Baltic sea in November 2014

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Russian Su-27 intercepts NATO Portuguese Air Force P-3 Orion over Baltic sea in November 2014

US troops inspec/prepare bombs in UAE

S-400. Russia anti-aircraft missile systems

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Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak is a step closer to reality

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Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak is a step 
closer to reality: 3D printed device that bends light could make objects
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<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Current invisibility cloaks often tend to draw more attention to object</strong></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>This is because waves decay as they pass through artificial material</strong><strong> </strong></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>New technique uses battery-powered tunnel diodes to boost the power</strong></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Technique works on 3D artificial materials rather than just plain sheets</strong></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>'An invisibility cloak will be a reality in my lifetime,' said Professor Xin</strong></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Scientists have been attempting to create invisibility cloaks long before Harry Potter made it popular.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But,
 because of the way they bend light, current designs have always tended 
to draw more attention to the object than they deflect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now,
 a US researcher claims to have overcome this problem by integrating 
battery-powered devices into his design - and he claims an invisibility 
cloak will be created in his lifetime. </span></div>
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The quest for a true invisibility 
cloak, seen in films such as Harry Potter (scene pictured), is the holy 
grail for physicists. But, because of the way they bend light, current 
designs have always tended to draw more attention to the object than 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Hao
 Xin, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the 
University of Arizona the technology could soon be used to conceal 
military airplanes and even people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His US Air Force-funded research is based on the use of porous plastic bowling balls and tiny copper wire circuit boards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">These objects are put together in precise geometrical patterns to bend waves of energy in unnatural ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In particular, they reveal a property called 'negative refraction', meaning they can bend a wave backwards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Through a prism with negative refraction, a straw leaning in a glass of water would appear inverted.</span></div>
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                    <span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE INVISIBILITY CLOAK FOR TIME </span></span>                </h3>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The quest for a true invisibility cloak, seen in films such as Harry Potter, is the holy grail for physicists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But
 while many have claimed to be able able to briefly conceal objects from
 view, and even shield sounds, one team has developed a way to cloak 
entire events.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The say they managed to do this by concealing these events behind strands of laser light.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 technique, called ‘temporal cloaking’ was developed at the Purdue 
University in West Lafayette using lasers and fibre optics.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers separated strands of frequencies in laser light before changing their respective height.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They
 then sent this light through a fibre optic cable. By slowing the speed 
of photons on a particular strand, the intensity of the light was 
dropped to zero.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This made that particular strand appear invisible, hidden behind or between other strands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Using
 this method, the light travelling in front of this strand was sped up, 
while the trailing part was slowed down to create a gap.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The physicists then used this gap to insert hidden messages in data.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">During
 test, the hidden messages travelled along with the other frequencies, 
but arrived at the other end marginally out of sync with the photons 
surrounding it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is called a spacetime cloak because the data is transported in a 'bubble of time.' </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The piece above the water's surface would appear below the water and leaning in the opposite direction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In
 a more futuristic scenario, a person looking at a person wearing a 
cloak with artificially designed refraction properties would see part or
 none of the person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This would, however, depend on the cloak's refractive index and whether the light bouncing off of it reached the viewer's eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But metamaterials with this negative refraction have presented a vexing physics problem: They reduce the strength of the wave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'One of the biggest problems with metamaterials is that they produce energy loss,' Professor Xin said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
 waves decay as they pass through the artificial material. We have 
designed a metamaterial that retains negative refraction but does not 
diminish energy.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In
 fact, the synthetic material not only prevented energy loss - it caused
 energy gain, with the microwave intensifying in strength as it passed 
through the material.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Professor
 Xin achieved this by embedding battery-powered tunnel diodes – which is
 a type of semiconductor device - and into the new material.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Many people did not think it was possible to achieve energy gain along with negative refraction,' Professor Xin said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He first showed it was possible, with one-dimensional metamaterials, in a paper published in Physical Review Letters in 2011.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His new findings, reported in Nature Communications, have broader implications, because they involve 3D metamaterials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Professor
 Xin said it will be years before fantastical applications like a Harry 
Potter-style invisibility cloaks would appear on the market.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But he says his research is inherently practical, predicting: 'Invisibility cloaks will be a reality in my lifetime.'</span></div>
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before fantastical applications like invisibility cloaks appear on the 
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Drones could soon hunt in PACKS

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Drones could soon hunt in PACKS: Darpa plans reveal aircraft would collaborate to find targets with 'minimal supervision'</h1>
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<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Darpa will host a number of meetings in March to discuss how drones could work together to find, identify and engage targets</strong></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Aims to enable one human operator to control a pack of drones</strong></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Software could ‘extend the mission capabilities of existing unmanned aircraft,’ and make them more autonomous</strong></span></li>
<li class=""><span style="font-size: 1.4em;"><strong>Idea
 for drones that hunt in packs was floated in the US Department of 
Defence's Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap for the next 25 years</strong></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Flying a military drone in a warzone or other dangerous locations currently requires a team of human operators.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But
 this could be about to change, as the US military looks to enable 
drones to hunt in ‘coordinated packs’ with minimal human supervision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) will host a number of
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identify and engage targets with fewer humans controlling them.</span></div>
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Darpa is hosting meetings to discuss 
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with fewer humans controlling them (illustrated). Its 'Code' programme 
is also designed to  cut the number of operators needed to control a 
single unmanned vehicle, allowing one person to operate six 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The meeting is being called under the programme name ‘Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment’ (Code).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Darpa has <a class="" href="http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2015/01/21.aspx" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">invited</a>
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 related to Code research and focused on revolutionary approaches to 
unmanned aircraft systems, autonomy and collaborative operations,’ to 
attend the discussion in Arlington, Virginia. </span></div>
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groundbreaking software enabling unmanned aircraft to work together with
 minimal supervision’. </span></div>
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Darpa said that the programme offers 
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enabling unmanned aircraft to work together with minimal supervision’. A
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<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DRONES COULD MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS DURING MISSIONS, ROADMAP REVEALS </span></span>                </h3>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Last January, the US Department of Defence (DoD) revealed in its Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap for the next 25 years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It
 said that drones may be able to deviate from set missions, carry 
stronger chemical weapons and hunt in swarms in the years to come.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At
 the moment, drones follow precise commands to complete a predetermined 
step-by-step mission, but the unmanned aircraft of the future could 
deviate from tasks, informed by ‘laws’ that govern their behaviour, laid
 out in algorithms and machine learning, as well as advanced sensors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They
 currently use GPS to navigate war zones and remote areas, but the 
satellite signals used by the systems can be jammed easily, so Darpa is 
working on jam-proof ‘inertial guidance systems’.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 DoD's roadmap also features plans for deadly ‘swarms’ of drone-bombs 
that are launched from an unmanned ‘mothership’ to circle the skies 
while a human operator searches for targets for the drones to crash 
into, guided by the bots’ on-bard cameras.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Thanks to the unmanned mothership, the kamikaze drones could have a range of over 250 nautical miles (463km) the roadmap said. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 weapons dropped by more traditional drones are also set to get more 
deadly under the plans, as researchers are working on ‘energetic 
nanoparticles’ with a larger surface areas so that the chemicals within 
the ammunition reach faster and create a more powerful explosion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 technologies combined are intended to help the US military be ‘more 
effective through greater automation and greater performance,’ the 
report says.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It
 seems to envision a time when groups of drones can work intelligently 
together under one human operator, who still makes big decisions, such 
as whether to attack a target, based on information gathered by the 
group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Jean-Charles
 Ledé, the program’s manager, said: ‘Just as wolves hunt in coordinated 
packs with minimal communication, multiple Code-enabled unmanned 
aircraft would collaborate to find, track, identify and engage targets, 
all under the command of a single human mission supervisor.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Noting
 that while current drones have proved ‘invaluable’ for gathering 
intelligence and tactical strikes, Darpa said that most of them require 
constant control by a dedicated pilot who steers the craft and a sensor 
operator, as well as a large number of analysts.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It
 takes a lot of manpower to control each craft and sift through 
information, which is expensive and can pose challenges in remote war 
zones with highly mobile targets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 experts think this problem can be overcome by using algorithms and 
software to ‘extend the mission capabilities of existing unmanned 
aircraft well beyond the current state-of-the-art,’ and make them more 
autonomous.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It’s
 hoped that experts can create software that can survive communications 
disruptions, and electronic warfare, while working with current drone 
designs. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Last
 January, the US Department of Defence (DoD) revealed in its Unmanned 
Systems Integrated Roadmap for the next 25 years, including plans for 
more automous drones that could work in packs.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It
 said that while drones currently use GPS to navigate war zones and 
remote areas, the satellite signals used by the systems can be jammed 
easily, so Darpa is working on jam-proof ‘inertial guidance systems’.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It
 also featured plans for deadly ‘swarms’ of drone-bombs that are 
launched from an unmanned ‘mothership’ to circle the skies while a human
 operator searches for targets for the drones to crash into, guided by 
the bots’ on-bard cameras.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Thanks to the unmanned mothership, the kamikaze drones could have a range of over 250 nautical miles (463km) the roadmap said.</span></div>
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Code-enabled unmanned aircraft would collaborate to find, track, 
identify and engage targets, all under the command of a single human 
mission supervisor.’ A demonstrator model of  the Neuron drone is shown</div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Last
 year, a Dutch designer penned the Drone Survival Guide, which like bird
 watching charts, shows the various shapes and sizes of flying objects 
by their silhouettes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Ruben
 Pater’s guide, however, details the differing kinds of flying robots 
used at war, as well as survival tips of how to hide from them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 majority of the drones selected for the chart are from Nato member 
countries, including the UK, France, Germany, US and Canada.</span></span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This
 is because these countries have used drones in wars such as Afghanistan
 and are also more transparent than some other countries in disclosing 
information about the robots, such as their wingspan.</span></span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It uses a skull icon to show that a drone is used for attack and a little eye to denote a surveillance vehicle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 chart, which Mr Pater describes as ‘21st century bird watching’ shows 
the vast array of flying war machines used today from the giant 130ft 
(37 metre) wingspan of the Global Hawk drone to the petite Parrot AC 
quadcopter, which measures just 23 inches (58cm).</span></span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He
 said: ‘Most drones are used today by military powers for 
remote-controlled surveillance and attack and their numbers are growing.</span></span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) predicted in 2012 that within 20 
years there could be as many as 30,000 drones flying over US soil alone.</span></span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘As
 robotic birds will become commonplace in the near future, we should be 
prepared to identify them. This survival guide is an attempt to 
familiarise ourselves and future generations, with a changing 
technological environment.’</span></span></div>
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Shanghai Building 50,000-ton amphibious warship carry VTOL J-10 fighters

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<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">Mil.huanqiu.com</span> carries the 
full text of Hong Kong’s Mingpao January 23 article titled “Shanghai 
Building 50,000-ton amphibious warship” by Hong Kong military 
commentator Liang Tianren.<br />
Liang says that he wrote a long article three years ago that 
disclosed development of a 40,000-ton amphibious attack worship 
or helicopter carrier. In November that year, Real Admiral Yin Zhuo 
disclosed at CCTV that was developing a 40,000-ton amphibious 
attack warship. Later in 2013, a official website revealed a 
list of 18 kinds of equipment Navy is to develop during China’s 
twelfth five-year plan (2011-2015), in which homegrown aircraft 
carrier no. 001 is item 7 while 50,000-ton amphibious attack warship is 
item 10.<br />
China has built three Type 071 landing platform dock with quite 
strong landing capabilities, but they have the shortcomings of 
insufficient fire power and command hardware and limited air support and
 cannot serve as the cores of Chinese fleets far away from shore. <br />
Has an urgent need for a large amphibious attack warship that 
carries advanced VTOL aircrafts to dominate the air and helicopters and 
landing crafts to send ground troops in to protect its investment.<br />
According to the article, 50,000 amphibious attack warship 
will be 265 meters long and carry six fixed-wing aircrafts and four 
large helicopters on its deck. It will be accompanied by two Zubr LCACs.<br />
Liang said that is developing stealth VTOL J-10 fighter jets. 
The amphibious attack warship will carry 12 J-10s.<br />
It will, in addition, carry 10 to 20 
helicopters of various types, drones and other New-concept flying 
vehicles. As a result, it is comparable in capabilities to Britain’s 
Queen Elizebeth aircraft carrier.<br />
Shanghai’s Jiangnan Changxing Shipyard is building such a warship 
quickly section by section. It is expected that the sections will be 
assembled into one warship to be launched next year the latest. The 
shipyard will build 3 more such warships.<br />
The shipyard is, in addition, building a 12,000-ton large destroyer. 
Shanghai is to build three more Type 071 large LDPs and conduct series 
production of Type 052D destroyers. Due to such heavy workload, it will 
not build any aircraft carrier.<br />
<i>Source: <span class="skimlinks-unlinked">huanqiu.com</span> “Hong 
Kong media says China is building 50,000-ton amphibious warship to carry
 J-10 VTOL fighters” </i><br />
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Shanghai Building 50,000-ton amphibious warship carry VTOL J-10 fighters

Some design of J-10C Mil.huanqiu.com carries the full text of Hong Kong’s Mingpao January 23 article titled “Shanghai Build...

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