China Builds Missile Targets That Look Like US Carriers

BEIJING – Military China has built several missile targets that look similar to aircraft carrier and some warships United States of America (US). According to Maxar satellite imagery the missile targets were built in the Taklamakan desert.

Satellite images analyzed by USNI News, Sunday (11/07/2021), shows an outline of the US Ford-class aircraft carrier and at least two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are part of the target range that has been built in the Ruoqiang region in central China.

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The site is close to a former target range that China used to test early versions of the so-called DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile, a missile dubbed the carrier-killing weapon.

The satellite imagery shows that China continues to focus on anti-aircraft carrier capabilities, with an emphasis on US Navy warships.

Unlike the Iranian Navy’s carrier-shaped targets in the Persian Gulf, the new facility shows signs of sophisticated instrumented target range.

Still according to Maxar satellite imagery, the carrier-like target looks like a flat surface without a ship island, lift aircraft, weapons support or other details.

There are two more target areas that represent warships that don’t have metal. But the target of this warship seemed more complicated. There were many upright posts positioned on them, probably for instrumentation. Or possibly it could be used for a radar reflector to simulate a ship’s superstructure.

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