Nightly News   |  December 14, 2011

Spotted: China’s aircraft carrier

A commercial satellite operator says it has captured a rare image of China's first aircraft carrier as it sailed through the Yellow Sea. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: Looks like this was a million in one shot. A commercial satellite company says it was going through some recent pictures of the Earth shot from space

when they found this: the first known commercially available photo of China 's first aircraft carrier while under way at sea. They bought it unfinished, China did. They bought it secondhand from the old Soviet Union , actually, and spent years refurbishing it. It has generated intense interest in the military community.