Satellite image shows a mock up of a US carrier on rail tracks in the northwestern desert
AP – Nov 8, 2021
Satellite images show China has built mock-ups of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer in its northwestern desert, possibly as practice for a future naval clash as tensions rise between the nations.
China has upgraded its military massively in recent years, and its capability and intentions are increasingly concerning to the United States as tensions rise over the South China Sea, Taiwan and military supremacy in the Indo-Pacific.
The images captured by Colorado-based satellite imagery company Maxar Technologies dated Sunday show the outlines of a U.S. aircraft carrier and at least one destroyer that sits on a railway track.
Maxar identified the location of the features as Ruoqiang, a Taklamakan Desert county in the northwestern Xinjiang region.
The independent U.S. Naval Institute said on its website that the mock-ups of U.S. ships were part of a new target range developed by the People’s Liberation Army.
It wasn’t clear from the images how many details had been included in the apparent targets, although USNI said it had identified features on the destroyer including its funnels and weapons systems.
China’s massive military upgrade has emphasized countering the U.S. and other countries’ naval forces.
That’s included the development of land, sea and air-launched missiles to deny access and possibly sink opposing vessels, expressed most emphatically by the land-based DF-21D ballistic missile known as the “carrier killer.”
Recent months have also seen a substantial increase in Chinese military flights just southwest of Taiwan, the self-governing island republic claimed by Beijing as its own territory and which it threatens to annex by force. Washington provides Taiwan with much of its weaponry and U.S. law requires that it ensures the island can defend itself and to treat threats to it as matters of “grave concern.”
The images released by Maxar come amid growing concerns over the possibility of military conflict between the world’s two biggest economies, who are at odds over a litany of political and economic issues.
Most recently, the Pentagon this month issued a report saying China is expanding its nuclear force much faster than U.S. officials predicted just a year ago. That appears designed to enable Beijing to match or surpass U.S. global power by midcentury, the report said.
U.S. defense officials have said they are increasingly wary of China’s intentions, largely with regard to the status of Taiwan.
“The PLA’s evolving capabilities and concepts continue to strengthen (China’s) ability to ‘fight and win wars’ against a ‘strong enemy’ — a likely euphemism for the United States,” the report said.
China’s navy and coast guard are also boosting their numbers of vessels at a record pace, concentrating them in the South China Sea, the strategic waterway that China claims virtually in its entirety.
While the U.S. Navy remains predominant, its resources are divided between the Indo-Pacific, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean and other regions where American interests lie.
China’s test of a hypersonic weapon capable of partially orbiting Earth before reentering the atmosphere and gliding on a maneuverable path to its target also surprised top U.S. military leaders. Beijing insisted it was testing a reusable space vehicle, not a missile, but the weapon system’s design is meant to evade U.S. missile defenses.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the test was “very close” to being a Sputnik moment, akin to the 1957 launching by the Soviet Union of the world’s first space satellite, which fed fears the United States had fallen behind technologically.
Stop ‘your’ army before it’s too late.
If they do this now, it is a type of false flag attack I have not heard of before.
Quite probably they are for a a false flag type operation to fool both chinese and americans into believing a war is going on when all that is happening is a transfer of money and power to the elite investors of both countries.
Oh yeh, like this is some secret the Chinese didn’t want the world to know about. I am sure the Chinese are strategising on simulators and with real mock-ups, but this looks more like a warning to the US nutjob war mongers. Do you know the BIGGEST block on a US war with China? It is Putin, it is Russia. The head of the CIA recently met with senior Russians in New Deli. The gist was Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine. This might have been part of the chat, but the US knows full well that there is NO WAY Russia will let the Ukraine join NATO. So this wasn’t the real purpose of the meeting, which lasted TWO DAYS!
The US can’t get involved with China while the Russians watch, while polishing their guns, so to speak. This period of time is an excellent chance for China to take Taiwan back under central control. Imagine three superpowers in the ring and one stays in his corner biding his time. The US has set itself up as the big guy, now they are being called out, to stick their chin out and see if they can take a real punch. The Russians won’t give the US an inch. This is high risk international chess at its best. The exceptional, or more like the unexceptional. I await the usual ‘They are all in it together’ mantra. It could be true, so the Russians have made a deal with the US, we won’t get involved, we won’t attack the US during this period, & we are going to tell China that we told the US to take a run and jump… seems very plausible, not to me.
Do you not think that they’d be stupid not to practice. Who else is likely to bother them?
When – not if – they are attacked, the Chinese will show no mercy. The US fails to comprehend what they are up against. This ignorance will lead to disaster.
The fact the US has the reach to take these images inside Chinese territory from orbit illustrates the threat the US poses, and why a rising power must learn to defend itself from such a proven menace.
it was always in history that ukraine
belonged to the russian hemisphere +
chinasea to the chinese . only idiots
of warmongers try to create quarrel.
rothschils mafia tries to usufructuar
Since that Iran made mock up of US aircraft carrier, it has become fashionable these days!
Years ago, I remember articles poo-pooing the Chinese for their use of so called inferior equipment, not realising that these were in effect training aids. Tactics and knowledge, skill to make the best use of equipment on hand is what makes a winning military power.
US entered WW2 with much obsolete equipment, but made the best of it, until the greatly improved showed up. Then a combination of earlier training on the inferior coupled with the superior provided a deciding edge.
Computers can only provide realism up to a point. Use of actual equipment to provide strafing runs, electronic countermeasures, avoiding enemy SAM sites, etc. provides the realism necessary to prepare for war. I would be less concerned about a simulated carrier deck on a rail car. Basically a military departments use similar type training aids. Movement at carrier speeds gives pilots a realistic moving target expected at sea.
Training for war starts in the home. With the US having a population that most have been pampered all their lives and the difficulty that the military has with recruiting enough qualified to fill the ranks, who aren’t obese, completed high school, haven’t sired a family out of wedlock, and etc., these provide obstacles to honing a tactical edge. In short, if the US decides to pursue war, it may find itself biting off more than it can chew.
In the words of Dean Clifford: if yous dont understand what usufruct means, yous are fruckt..
If China wishes to avoid war, it ought to schedule a live, free, online demonstration of a carrier killer missile and have it hit that thing right there from however reasonably far away. Might wake up some gung ho warloving US parents.
They’re starting to realize that the USA et al. Is no longer a benevolent lumbering giant that supposedly cares for them and their kids.
R.C.
If one is paying attention, there already is enough information out there to conclude Putin is not a threat to Globalism, he is not a threat to the Jew World Order. The first cold war was phony, so is the second. Putin outlawed ‘anti-Semitism’ (to criticize the Rothschilds), he is all in the Plandemic and recognized in his own speeches the supreme authority of the United Nations. It’s a good cop, bad cop routine; Washington – BAD, Kremlin – GOOD.
The Chinese case is more difficult to grasp. Washington antagonism against China is dead serious. In the Zio-Communists’ eyes China is the new ‘Nazi’ Germany – the Chinese experiment went out of control! If we value real assets instead of paper assets, China is already the biggest economy in the world. China isn’t playing ball in the ‘Climate Change’ scam, a big f**k you to the UN. The New World Order cannot coexist with China’s National Socialism, one of them has to go.
Putin already betrayed Assad, he gave diplomatic immunity for Israelis to bomb at will the Syrian people. Putin might be Jewish himself. No consequences or accountability for Israeli was crimes in Syria – international policy of Putin the ‘savior.’ If WW3 breaks out, Russia is going to save the West this time, Putin will betray Xi at the correct decisive moment.
Right-wingers must support China struggle for independence and sovereignty, China isn’t the enemy, the Jew World Order is. It’s none of my business to approve, or disapprove, China’s millenary culture because I’m not Chinese. Real culture diversity is when distinct people govern themselves, and perhaps segregate inside national borders. The New World Order promotes the opposite – normalization of all cultural heritage under its iron rule, no cultural diversity whatsoever on the contrary, world cultural pasteurization.
How else would their military practice? Im not pro-china, but a little common sense says that if they are to practice bombing things, they need lifelike targets. I didnt read every comment, so if this is repetitive, sorry.
I hate China with a passion, nothing good has ever come out of that country. Manufacture garbage items by the billions that end up in landfill. Hasn’t invented anything except Western countries have allowed them to produce the stuff that us Westerners want. The quality of most if the shit they make is very poor.
Just look at their own Tofu buildings all over China, they look like death towers just waiting to collapse.
I wouldn’t be to worried about any weaponary that China is building. China can’t even master Jet propulsion. Has to rely on Russia for it’s engines & I can’t see the Russians helping them anytime soon.
China has enough troubles at home with Evergrande on the verge of collapse.
Only good thing about China is their woman make good whores and work for their money in Brothels.
Nothing else I find attractive about the GOOK.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/09/chinese-operated-port-opens-israel-despite-american-concerns