India should be worried as Beijing has now World’s largest number of vessels

By Anjan Roy

China has commissioned its latest aircraft carrier, Fujian, this week which further confirms it is the world’s largest blue water navy by vessels count.

Fujian aircraft carrier is a mammoth ship comparable only to the largest ones of the US navy in the same class and capability. The ship has been built completely indigenously in a Chinese shipyard and incorporates a special aircraft lift system which allows its aircraft to easily take off with higher load of weapons and fuel. That means the aircraft would have larger weapons capacity and lethality and also longer range of operation.

This special aircraft take off system known as the electromagnetic catapults to enable the ship’s aircraft to easily

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