The Pearl in the Great China Fleet

... a century ago. And this is not surprising, given that they have used Soviet examples as their point of origin. First, let us briefly talk about the Soviet aircraft carrier programme. After the unsuccessful attempts to build “Stalin’s Big Fleet,” as it was called [1] , which was supposed to include aircraft carriers (the first such proposals were heard when the Russian Empire was still in existence ), the Soviet Navy was forced to put aircraft carriers – which had in any case been labelled “weapons of imperial aggression” – on the backburner for a long time. The first Soviet carrier ships were a rather bizarre kind of hand-me-down, having ...