Overview
- The PLA Navy announced on Nov. 18 that the new-type aircraft carrier Fujian finished its first at-sea training since commissioning and returned to the Sanya base in Hainan.
- The task group conducted carrier-based aircraft takeoff and landing drills to exercise flight operations.
- The training included tests of the ship’s electromagnetic aircraft launch system, with state media broadcasting footage of EMALS launches.
- Coverage described the event as the carrier’s first realistic, combat-oriented training since entering service.
- Japanese outlets carried the Beijing announcement via a Kyodo News dispatch, and no follow-on deployments or additional details were disclosed.