China conducts first test-flight of stealth plane

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The wikipedia entry for the Varyag is interesting.

China bought an under construction Soviet aircraft carrier that had been stripped down to its bare hull. They planned to use it as a floating hotel/casino, but that was either a cover all along, or the details broke down, and it never happened. The hull was towed to China, but broke loose from its tow line at one point during a storm off Greece, killing a skeleton crew member. When it finally reached China, at a towing cost of $5 Million, it was abandoned for a while. And it's now being rebuilt by the Chinese navy to use as a carrier. But it's not a full service carrier, because when it was being built originally for the Soviet Union, the only way it would be allowed to pass through Turkey to the Mediterranean is if it wasn't designated an aircraft carrier. So it has limited functions, which I don't really understand. It looks like a carrier to me.