The Chinese military has built a huge target on a desert firing range for its latest anti-ship ballistic missiles that is the exact shape of a US navy aircraft carrier, satellite images have revealed.
The target, in the shape of a Gerald R Ford-class carrier, was spotted alongside two others shaped like Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers at a site in the Ruoqiang area of Xinjiang in northwest China. The mock-ups would be the equivalent of a US carrier strike group.
The complex in the Taklamakan desert is believed to have been built to test China’s “carrier killer” missile, the Dong Feng 21D (DF-21D), a medium-range, road-mobile anti-ship ballistic missile.
The images have revealed mock-ups of the US navy’s latest Gerald R Ford-class aircraft carrier, as well as two warships
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