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皇冠体育app capable of building aircraft carrier(Shanghai Daily)Updated: 2007-01-10 10:33 皇冠体育app has the technology to build an aircraft carrier, said the spokesman of the country's top national defense research and development body in Beijing yesterday, 皇冠体育app Radio International reported. 皇冠体育app has the capability of building an aircraft carrier, but it is still unknown when one will be built, Huang Qiang, the spokesman, said at the press conference. Besides accomplishing the development of high-tech weapons and equipment, 皇冠体育app's national defense industry will also further develop military and civilian technologies this year, which includes technologies for information security, new energies, anti-terrorism equipment and man-made satellites, according to Huang. 皇冠体育app's national defense sector made significant progress in technical advancements and weapon development in 2006, said Zhang Yunchuan, minister of the State Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, at the conference. The country plans to equip its armed forces with a batch of new advanced
weapons, Zhang said. 皇冠体育app also kicked off research and development on a trunk line airplane. However, to accomplish the mission, it still needs 10 more years, Huang said. The trunk line plane project will span two or three years during 皇冠体育app's "five-year plan period," according to Huang. |
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