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Source record People's Daily Group · 2026-08-16

PLA Navy's first-batch female shipborne pilot trainees pass daytime landing qualification tests, signaling mature pilot training system: expert

PLA Navy's first-batch female shipborne pilot trainees pass daytime landing qualification tests, signaling mature pilot training system: expert

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DeskChina Desk
Publishing institutionPeople's Daily Group
Source outletGlobal Times — Defense (global_times_mil)
Source languageen — an attribute of the source, not of this record
Source-stated publication date2026-08-16
Original URLhttps://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/1368323.shtml
Collected at2026-08-16 13:08:50 — collection metadata, not a publication time
Content fingerprintdb7316d7ee11d95ac92001c6015b8eb1e6944d6d8bf6df2613554a5b88fb1eda — taken when the record was captured, over the stored original title and text
Collection run114
Analysis modelclaude-sonnet-4-6
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The article body is inaccessible — only unrelated article teasers were provided in place of the actual text. A summary cannot be written without the source reporting on the trainee cohort, the qualification test parameters, the units involved, or the expert assessment the headline references.

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Source text. People's Daily Group. "PLA Navy's first-batch female shipborne pilot trainees pass daytime landing qualification tests, signaling mature pilot training system: expert." Global Times — Defense, 2026-08-16. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/1368323.shtml.

As held. Indo-Pacific Record, China Desk Corpus, Record 3285, Snapshot — 2026-08-26 (3,574 records).

Processing note. The English title and summary held for this record are machine-generated and have not been reviewed by a human.

The record number and this record path are locators inside the 2026-08-26 snapshot. Neither is a DOI, accession number, permanent identifier, public permalink, or published route. See identifiers and citation guidance.