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Monday, November 28, 2011

Russia refuses to sell arresters for Chinese aircraft carrier

Shi Lang (ex Varyag)Construction of the first Chinese aircraft carrier faced new unanticipated problems; it turned out that the former Soviet carrier Varyag was not equipped with arresters, and it is unclear where China could get them.

In 2007 news agency Kanwa exclusively reported from St. Petersburg that China would buy 4 arresters designed by Marine Engineering Research Institute and made by Proletarsky Zavod plant which produces all Russian arresters and arresting hooks.

Earlier on, China had contacts with this plant purchasing constituent parts for Project 956E/EM destroyers.

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