{"id":35300,"date":"2025-11-14T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=35300"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:05:43","slug":"chinese-pla-navys-first-type-076-amphibious-assault-ship-sichuan-launches-first-sea-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/chinese-pla-navys-first-type-076-amphibious-assault-ship-sichuan-launches-first-sea-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese PLA Navy&#8217;s first Type 076 amphibious assault ship &#8216;Sichuan&#8217; launches first sea trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>SHANGHAI, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) :\u00a0 China&#8217;s first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, PLANS Sichuan, set sail from east China&#8217;s Shanghai on Friday morning to conduct its first navigation test mission.<\/p>\n<p>The sea trial will focus on testing and verifying the reliability and stability of the ship&#8217;s power, electrical and other systems.<\/p>\n<p>The indigenously developed vessel was put into the water in December 2024 at a launch and naming ceremony. It was given the hull number 51.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, construction has progressed steadily as planned. PLANS Sichuan has completed mooring tests, equipment installation and system debugging, and has now met the technical requirements for sea trials.<\/p>\n<p>The Sichuan has a full-load displacement of over 40,000 tonnes and features a dual-island superstructure along with a full-length flight deck.<\/p>\n<p>Being the new-generation amphibious assault ship of the Chinese People&#8217;s Liberation Army Navy, the vessel incorporates innovative electromagnetic catapult and arrestor technologies, enabling it to carry fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and amphibious equipment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35304\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/china-navy-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35305\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/china-ship.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35306\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ship-china.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1002\" height=\"751\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHANGHAI, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) :\u00a0 China&#8217;s first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, PLANS Sichuan, set sail from east China&#8217;s Shanghai on Friday morning to conduct its first navigation test mission. The sea trial will focus on testing and verifying the reliability and stability of the ship&#8217;s power, electrical and other systems. The indigenously developed vessel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35307,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35300\/revisions\/35307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}