The 300 meters Liaoning - named after the province where it was refitted - is a refurbished Soviet ship purchased from Ukraine (ex Varyag). For now the carrier has no operational aircraft and will ...

Five Aircraft Carriers: People's Republic Of China Currently ... its first carrier from a Soviet leftover carrier named the ...

Unbeknownst to everyone else, he was actually buying it on behalf of the Chinese government to get his country an aircraft ...