{"id":149129,"date":"2024-11-11T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T12:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/satellite-images-show-china-making-newest-aircraft-carriers-nuclear-powered\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T12:38:04","slug":"satellite-images-show-china-is-making-its-newest-aircraft-carriers-nuclear-powered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=149129","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Images Show China Is Making Its Newest Aircraft Carriers Nuclear-Powered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136297\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/china\/\"  >China<\/a><\/span> appears to be working to develop a nuclear reactor to power future aircraft carriers. Satellite images show that China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor for a large surface warship (assumed to be an aircraft carrier). China is fast building a fleet of aircraft carriers &#8211; its massive and first indigenously designed             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"266795\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aircraft-carrier\/\"  >aircraft carrier<\/a><\/span> &#8211; the conventionally powered Type 003 <em>Fujian- <\/em>currently undergoing sea trials. Concurrently, China is known to be working on         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033113\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/china-plan-air-force-j-35-cv-18-fujian-aircraft-carrier\/\" >developing a new generation fleet of carrier-based fighter jets<\/a><\/span> for its growing number of flat tops. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China appears to be moving ahead with the construction of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers as it builds a blue-water navy to challenge the US Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2759,118,412,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-carrier","category-china","category-military","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149130,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149129\/revisions\/149130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}