An American aircraft carrier continued to patrol the South China Sea, and a Chinese "flattop" concluded a sea trial.

Shandong, China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier, achieved “all-weather” combat capacity last year.

The tyre marks may be signs of ‘touch-and-go’ landings and it is not known if the ship’s advanced catapult has been tested yet.

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"This is the most since World War Two," he says ... The tempo of operations on the aircraft carrier itself has also been unrelenting - with dozens of sorties being flown round the clock.

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