Beijing: The Chinese military uses mock-up from US aircraft carriers in the range of weapons testing in remote West desasts, new satellite image shows, showing the People’s Liberation Army focused on neutralizing the main US tool.
Satellite images describe the target in the form of operators and two burke-class Arleigh missile vessels in the testing facility in the Ruoqiang area in the Desert of Taklamakan Xinjiang, the US Navy Institution website reported.
Both types of vessels were deployed by the US seventh fleet, the West Pacific patrol including waters around Taiwan.
Image was taken in October by Maxar Technologies Inc., a US company with more than 80 satellites built by companies in Orbit.
This facility also has two rectangular targets of around 75 meters (246 feet) installed on the rail, Maxar said in a statement emailed to Bloomberg News on Monday.
(Mock-up from the US naval aircraft carrier and destroyer in the northwestern Desert of China.
Photo: Maxar technology through AP) Spokesman for Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Wenbin said on Monday on a regular press direction in Beijing that he was not aware of reports – Satellite draw.
This site is clear for satellites, a sign that Beijing tries to show Washington what the missile troops can do.
In August last year, the Chinese military carried out a coordinated test launch of the “killer killer” missile to the South China Sea, an action by former Head of the Indonesian Pacific Indo Command Admiral Phil Davidson then told the Senate panel intended as “messages that are not wrong Of course.
” DF-21D is the center of China’s strategy to prevent military action release by the east coast by threatening to destroy the main source of US power projections in the region, namely the battle group operator.
The heads of the Naval Intelligence Deputy Admiral Jack Dorsett told reporters in January 2011 that the Pentagon underestimated the speed in which China developed and deployed DF-21D.
Practicechina-US Ties Ties have been quietly improved in recent months, but the two countries argue over Taiwan and the alarm has grown in Washington over the Beijing nuclear Arsenal.
In a sign of how hot the rhetoric over Taiwan has become, Chinese media last week had to tame online speculation on the possibility of war.
The Pentagon has voiced concern that China expanded its nuclear weapons ability faster than those believed before.
Many in the establishment of the US military was also worried about China’s investment in advanced missile technology, with the top uniformed military officers recently called China who reported a hypersonic weapons system test “very concerned.”