China builds US aircraft carrier-shaped target in desert to practice missile strikes

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Illustrative photo of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford


The Chinese military intends to train in delivering missile strikes on the Naval the fleet USA. To do this, China built a missile target in the shape of a US Ford-class aircraft carrier in the center of the country, in the Takla Makan desert.



This information was published by the USNI News portal, owned by the US Naval Institute, with reference to data from space images provided by the American company Maxar Technologies.

Next to the "aircraft carrier" in the desert is an imitation of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, also made in full size.

The "ships" of the US Navy, the Chinese military placed near the range, where the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) conducts rocket firing. In particular, early versions of DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missiles were tested there.

The photographs show that the mock-ups are built without excessive detail, although their external contours are completely identical to the outlines of the warships they imitate. At the same time, high masts can be seen, probably to accommodate measuring instruments.


The idea of ​​building dummies of American aircraft carriers to practice strikes is not new. Previously, the Iranian military created something similar in the Persian Gulf. The Americans themselves are actively using prototyping technologies, including layouts of Chinese and Russian anti-aircraft missile systems.
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  1. -3
    8 November 2021 13: 39
    Could have bought one real used aircraft carrier from the Yankees to shoot it with missiles!
    1. +18
      8 November 2021 14: 20
      Construction has been underway since 2019. An extensive railway was laid to the range, along which targets can move. One of the targets is located on a railway platform (dimensions: length - 75 m, width - 6 m).
      The model of an aircraft carrier does not contain a superstructure, unlike destroyers.
      The tests of the Dongfeng-26B with a firing range of up to 4000 km are in full swing.
      Ballistic anti-ship missiles of this type are launched from missile ranges: Shuangchengzi (Gansu Province) and Jilantai (Inner Mongolia Autonomous Republic).
      1. +3
        8 November 2021 14: 43
        Isn't this a simulator for practicing takeoff and landing of carrier-based pilots?
        1. 0
          8 November 2021 21: 45
          Think about it, this is trolling, warning or real preparation ... recourse
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  2. +13
    8 November 2021 13: 39
    And the target can move at speeds up to 30 knots? wassat and good trolling. Visual.
    1. +3
      8 November 2021 13: 47
      Maybe you can programmatically set a point away from the target ..... and then the GOS will turn
    2. +1
      8 November 2021 13: 47
      Mountain Trolling Shooter is a Chinese AUG off the California coast lol and, the Chinese in uniform on surfers lol en masse...
    3. +2
      8 November 2021 13: 48
      most likely unlikely. Where can they dig such a motor with cables for 30 knots, and for such a colossus? laughing
    4. +8
      8 November 2021 13: 54
      Quote: Mountain Shooter
      And the target can move at speeds up to 30 knots?

      and even faster

      1. +3
        8 November 2021 14: 25
        Quote: Flood
        and even faster

        That is, you still think that if you jump higher ...
        1. +11
          8 November 2021 14: 27
          Quote: Aleksandre
          That is, you still think that if you jump higher ...

          I believe that Africans run faster because they were born closer to the equator
          1. +1
            8 November 2021 16: 13
            I believe that Africans run faster because they were born closer to the equator

            And jump higher centrifugal force acts
    5. +12
      8 November 2021 13: 58
      Quote: Mountain Shooter
      And the target can move at speeds up to 30 knots? wassat and good trolling. Visual.

      Why not? The layout of the American UDC was put on the rails
      1. +8
        8 November 2021 14: 04
        diesel locomotives will mean they will carry. it turns out in my joke about the cables and the motor there was some truth ...

        I am shocked by the activities of the Chinese.
    6. +5
      8 November 2021 14: 08
      As "Kassad" writes, some targets can move along railway tracks ...
      One of the targets imitating the American destroyer of the type "Arleigh Burke"


    7. +1
      8 November 2021 14: 11
      Quote: Mountain Shooter
      And the target can move at speeds up to 30 knots?

      Railway based wink So he can run.
      It became known that in the area of ​​​​the Charklyk / Zhoqiang missile range (Takla-Makan desert, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region), China built targets for destruction - an American aircraft carrier and two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. Construction has been underway since 2019. An extensive railway has been laid to the range, along which targets can move. In photo 3 - a target on a railway platform (dimensions: length - 75 m, width - 6 m).
      Thus, with 99% certainty, China is purposefully preparing to destroy mobile sea targets.

      https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7199244.html
    8. Two
      0
      8 November 2021 15: 27
      AUG crews are a good help for going ashore!
    9. +3
      8 November 2021 18: 07
      It is likely that the layouts can be moved in order to simulate various options for building an aircraft carrier group order. The Dongfeng missiles are a further development of the 4K-18 type missiles developed by the Makeev GRTs, worked out in the late 60s, then the documentation was transferred to the PRC. In the USSR, it was not put into service, in connection with the assignment of these tasks to the anti-ship missiles. The missile was brought into the target zone according to satellite data, where the target was captured by the homing head of the missile and then it independently hit the target, the head of the missile had appropriate maneuvering engines. So, the speed of movement of the aircraft carrier did not have a special role. Given the current level of development of electronics, the capabilities of the system have certainly increased significantly.
    10. 0
      9 November 2021 08: 15
      And the target can move at speeds up to 30 knots

      And the plane with its at least 800 km / h does not care?
    11. 0
      10 November 2021 07: 03
      The rocket will catch up even at a speed of 50 knots)
  3. +7
    8 November 2021 13: 44
    Very unambiguous. Very.
    I suppose the stars and stripes will also be posted for the most resemblance to the original?

    PS Yankees have already protested and declared the unprofessionalism of the Chinese builders of a copy of the aircraft carrier?
  4. +8
    8 November 2021 13: 46
    "Everything needs skill, hardening, training,
    With every failure, know how to change,
    Otherwise, you will not see good luck ... "
    You are on the right path, dear Chinese comrades! good
    1. +3
      8 November 2021 15: 03
      At the expense of the right path, I agree - we directed resources and forces to prepare for the fight against the current main threat. But I strongly disagree about the comrades. China is not our friend or comrade.
      1. +4
        8 November 2021 15: 20
        The Chinese Communists did not dare to call the language gentlemen. hi
  5. +2
    8 November 2021 13: 46
    China builds US aircraft carrier-shaped target in desert to practice missile strikes
    And what is wrong?
    Everything is specific and clear, and for everyone.
    1. +5
      8 November 2021 13: 51
      who is against it? the Yankees, on the other hand, use camouflage and identification marks of Russia and China to mark the enemy in their exercises. So the Chinese, too, have decided not to be silly anymore. not only the Yankees "to kill the bad guys - the evil Russians and Chinese" in their exercises.

      Threat, even at one of the conferences, an American speaker showed in his presentation of new materials for camouflage coatings as an enemy figures of soldiers in very characteristic helmets, uniforms and with very characteristic machine guns - not to be confused with anyone. for a long time they have not hesitated to position us as an enemy. clear text and.
      1. +1
        8 November 2021 14: 09
        Quote: Nexcom
        open text and.

        Everything must be called by its proper name ... there is no need to spread porridge on a plate.
        So they confuse, not persistent, not confident, and everyone else is just angry!
        1. +1
          8 November 2021 14: 11
          yes, it deprives of illusions at once.

          unfortunately, the Yankees are still called "partners" with us
  6. 0
    8 November 2021 13: 54
    Well, that's a good idea for learning.
  7. +4
    8 November 2021 13: 56
    Again, the Chinese stole someone else's idea! Remember the submarine in the steppes of Ukraine? bully
    1. +1
      8 November 2021 14: 02
      you want to say a copy of the aircraft carrier had to be buried for the complexity of detection?
  8. +5
    8 November 2021 13: 58
    I think, not only for practicing missile strikes.
    And t for the "calibration" of their satellites.
    Now the Chinese need to take some dry cargo ship, accelerate it with tugs to the maximum possible speed with maneuvers. And train on it.
    An aircraft carrier of the Nimitz class drives at 30 knots in a combat situation and makes vigorous turns. It is not easy to hit him with a rocket.
    1. +1
      8 November 2021 14: 08
      Well, if the Chinese will roll it on rails, then with maneuvering it is unlikely to succeed. if only they lay out the curved snake rails
      1. +5
        8 November 2021 14: 38
        Quote: Nexcom
        if only they lay out the curved snake rails

        And then I thought why the Chinese laid out the railway with a curved snake:
        https://news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/China-Carrier-Target-Range.jpg

        - red dotted line.
        1. +1
          8 November 2021 19: 07
          Had seen. It is accepted. Probably on a linear section, they accelerate and then "maneuver" along a snake. Only some kind of short snake turns out. And so, everything is smartly conceived.
          1. 0
            8 November 2021 19: 34
            Threat, the Chinese probably think that they won’t be able to maneuver along the railway snake for longer, because Comrade Xi’s valiant vigilant falcons will quickly smash a copy of the adversary’s aircraft carrier to smithereens ...
    2. 0
      8 November 2021 15: 37
      Aircraft carrier?! Energetic turns?! At this speed, it passes its size with a length of 300m in 20 seconds, so the rocket has a good margin of time if you aim at the nose of the ship)))
      1. +3
        8 November 2021 15: 50
        Quote: Mikhail Zhikharev
        if you aim at the bow of the ship

        You are not a "winger", are you?
        For our and Amer anti-ship missiles, the aiming point is averaged, it falls in the center. I think whales have a similar system. Yes
        And for the latest samples of Ama technology, it is selected by the operator (or embedded in the PP algorithm) when the control center is translated from the ASBU to the head of the anti-ship missiles. So anything is possible.
        But I would not aim "on the nose" (this is not a street fight), because. little value in the nose. Everything of value is in the middle: nuclear weapons, catapults, fuel storage, arsenals of AB weapons ...
        1. 0
          8 November 2021 15: 52
          Alas, but I would like)
  9. 0
    8 November 2021 14: 07
    here fools! could carry models for exhibitions ..
  10. 0
    8 November 2021 14: 08
    The idea of ​​Iran was contagious!? wassat
  11. +1
    8 November 2021 14: 13
    Taklamakan is not in the middle of China, it is northwest. Almost extreme. The dunes are gray as cement.
  12. +5
    8 November 2021 14: 24
    You haven't seen this yet :)


    1. +5
      8 November 2021 15: 19
      I will add, perhaps, for the sake of completeness. smile
      1. Aag
        +3
        8 November 2021 16: 51
        Quote: Herrr
        I will add, perhaps, for the sake of completeness. smile

        Not fi ha se!!! Ship-model mugs from Chinese pioneers...
        Here's something I thought about model aircraft ... looking at space images in the next article about UAVs from decommissioned aircraft ...
        But seriously, that in the first, that in the second case, China demonstrates quite serious and unambiguous intentions and determination. However, like Iran ....
        1. +3
          8 November 2021 17: 08
          Any revolution is worth something only if it knows how to defend itself, but the revolution does not immediately learn to defend itself.
          V.I.Ulyanov (Lenin), PSS, v.37 (July 1918 - March 1919).
          Here, as they say, neither subtract nor add ...
        2. +3
          8 November 2021 17: 38
          The photos embossed by Dmitry Vladimirovich and myself do not depict a ship, but an unusual building on the territory of the Military Educational Center, 50 km west of Shanghai, not far from the shore of Lake Dianshan.You can learn more about it, for example, at: http://rusjev.net/2019/05/18/v-kitae-poyavilos-strannoe-zdanie-v-vide-amerikanskogo-avianostsa/
          1. +3
            9 November 2021 10: 07
            Quote: Herrr
            The photos embossed by Dmitry Vladimirovich and myself do not depict a ship, but an unusual building on the territory of the Military Educational Center, 50 km west of Shanghai, not far from the shore of Lake Dianshan.


            What does "embossed" mean - these are my photos taken in 2016.




            I purposefully search for and visit such museums and places in China - history is always interesting, and even more so in the military.
            In the same year I was in Tianjin at the TavKR Kiev - I brought something about 1500 photos from a business trip.
            1. 0
              9 November 2021 11: 12
              Do not be offended. smile Embossed ones are not stolen, but put into circulation. Yes drinks
              Thank you for continuing the banquet. hi good
              1. +1
                9 November 2021 11: 38
                Quote: Herrr
                Embossed ones are not stolen, but put into circulation.
                Thank you for continuing the banquet


                No problem.
                Our mechanic (a former helicopter pilot Mi-8) - climbed half of the objects in the museum. Some are historically original, but for example a tank and armored personnel carriers are tin mock-ups, made with a very high reliability (yes - I also got inside, despite the signs in Chinese Do not fit! ":)
                From what I liked there - a secret stump

                and a floating amphibian - another imitation of the American dukw


                The building is of course pretentious - but the exhibitions are scarce. Mostly modern equipment in models (except for a copy of the Hammer), but the historical part is interesting - I was especially interested in captured Japanese machine guns.


                But if there is a choice of what to see - TavKR Kyiv in Tianjin simply overshadows everything - this is not some kind of layout - this is a work of military engineering of its time.
                1. 0
                  9 November 2021 12: 18
                  I have a healthy envivy to you now. Yes It's all so delicious...
                  But a tree stump is something with something. The question is forever. winked
          2. +2
            9 November 2021 10: 21
            Quote: Herrr
            You can learn more about it, for example, at: http://rusjev.net/2019/05/18/v-kitae-poyavilos-strannoe-zdanie-v-vide-amerikanskogo-avianostsa/


            I was there long before 2019 - when the publication was "slammed".
            Back in 2014, I accidentally discovered this location on Google maps when I was looking for a nearby visited place. And in 2016, I was at an exhibition in Shanghai and visited the largest automobile museum and at the same time this museum in the form of an aircraft carrier. Posted a photo of the location.



            And the repeaters followed me :)
            1. +2
              9 November 2021 11: 45
              Once again Danke Shen. hi smile
              And in your photo with Type 55 anti-aircraft guns between the trees in the distance you can see the Harpoon launchers, did the Chinese snatch them from the Ticonderoga? lol
              1. +2
                9 November 2021 11: 55
                Something like that :))
                There is nothing easier to copy - pipes and corners :))

                In Tianjin it was more interesting - the original copies.




      2. +2
        9 November 2021 10: 03
        Quote: Herrr
        I will add, perhaps, for the sake of completeness

        Yes - that's how they found it, using Google maps and visited it in 2016.
        There are many layouts, but there is also a real technique.


        1. +1
          9 November 2021 11: 53
          Class! good Steer as you do! smile
  13. +4
    8 November 2021 14: 45
    Well done, they act like Suvorov. Suvorov, too, before the capture of Ishmael, ordered the construction of an exact copy of the fortress on which Russian soldiers trained in the assault. That later helped to take Ishmael with fewer losses.
  14. 0
    8 November 2021 14: 58
    Well done!! So you need to train in full size, and not a conditional opponent ...
  15. +3
    8 November 2021 15: 20
    How unreasonable it was to feed frozen rice with investments and technologies into an aggressive tiger, who just strives to bite his benefactors by the hand.))
    1. +1
      8 November 2021 16: 08
      Quote: From Tomsk
      How unreasonable it was to feed the investment and technology of a rice paddy into an aggressive tiger,

      Not at all!
      The Yankees fed and incited this monster in the USSR ...
      "A mistake came out, that's what science is silent about,
      They wanted coke, but ate Cook ... "- and the Yankees did it too ...
      Raised on your head...
      Now they are plotting to drive the Dragon back into the cave.
  16. +4
    8 November 2021 16: 17
    China builds US aircraft carrier-shaped target in desert to practice missile strikes

    "News" is not the first freshness
    They wrote about this at VO a couple of years ago.
    1. Aag
      0
      8 November 2021 16: 55
      Quote: Tucan
      China builds US aircraft carrier-shaped target in desert to practice missile strikes

      "News" is not the first freshness
      They wrote about this at VO a couple of years ago.

      If so, then for the sake of being more specific, they, apparently, should otroroat somewhere a copy of Washington .. And several White Houses, in order to change as they go ...))).
  17. 0
    8 November 2021 18: 33
    The Americans themselves are actively using prototyping technologies - including layouts of Chinese and Russian anti-aircraft missile systems.

    This is completely different! It is necessary to understand!
  18. 0
    8 November 2021 22: 11
    Test. A well-delivered message to the addressee
  19. 0
    9 November 2021 07: 28
    More models of the capitol and the white house next to put.
  20. 0
    9 November 2021 19: 38
    The Japanese also built a model and then attacked the United States at 41m

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