On Tuesday, China has formally inducted its first indigenous aircraft carrier, Shandong, into the Navy to increase its maritime strength. The 55,000-tonne ship Peepal Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has a remarkable rise in ambitions. This is China's second aircraft carrier after Liaoning. Liaoning was actually built in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s and was rebuilt in Delian. It was included in the PLAN as a tanning ship in 2012.

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No country has even reached close to the United States for aircraft carriers. The US currently has 11 aircraft carriers and its most recent aircraft carrier is the USS Gerald R. Ford, which it added to its fleet in July 2017 itself. The nuclear-powered aircraft is capable of carrying 90 aircraft and helicopters with its massive crew consisting of 6 thousand people.

If we talk about aircraft carriers globally, America has the most aircraft carriers. The United States has 11, while China, Italy and Britain each have two aircraft carriers. India, France, Russia, Spain and Thailand have one aircraft carrier each. Not only this, China also has an intercontinental ballistic missile DF-41 which can attack the US and Russia. Its firepower is believed to be the highest of all missiles ever built on earth.