Rare satellite image shows China's only two operational aircraft carriers together at a base in the South China Sea

The captured satellite image shows China's two operational aircraft carriers, Liaoning and Shandong, docked at Sanya Naval Base following exercises, marking rare visibility of both.

Both the Liaoning, built from an unfinished Soviet carrier, and the Shandong, China's first domestically produced carrier, exhibit key differences despite sharing a design lineage.

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