On January 4 this year, foreign scientific research organizations used commercial satellite imagery to photograph China building a giant aircraft carrier in the Taklamakan Desert. Judging by its special projector layout, it was supposed to be an imitation of the new American aircraft carrier - Ford. That is, the People's Liberation Army of China, has included Ford in its own sight.
China's placement of a shooting range in the Taklamakan Desert and the setting of simulated targets are not recent. Foreign spies have long been aware of the area, having found models of other U.S. warships, especially aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, and Japanese air defense systems. In addition, some of Taiwan's "** official residences" have also been copied in a 1:1 scale. What's going on?Practice. We want to defeat the US aircraft carriers and catch the ** elements, this is not an empty word.
China has never hid the fact that it has developed such training equipment, and Changfeng exhibited a variety of standard boats that can be exported abroad at the Zhuhai Air Show. However, due to the high technology content of the target ship, the cost is also high, so many countries cannot afford it, and no one is willing to launch missiles.
Iran also built a target ship in 2020 that mimicked a U.S. aircraft carrier, pulled it into the Persian Gulf and carried out multiple attacks, and finally sank it. Compared with the target ship of Iran, the level of science and technology of China's target ship is far from that of the new model released by Changfeng, which looks like ** and **, and there are many dimensions on it.
1. Antennas with different shapes. The most important reason is that the current ** is not just a metal box floating on the sea, it also requires a large number of mechanical, electronic and optical systems.
This also includes equipment capable of disrupting anti-ship missiles. In order to comprehensively evaluate its combat effectiveness, it is necessary to conduct it comprehensively. At the very least, check whether they can disrupt the end-of-the-line guidance radars of different types of missiles. Even an anti-ship missile will need radar in the last days. The DF-21 D was developed ten years ago, and even if the United States cannot forcibly stop it, it will take some means of electromagnetic interference.
The advent of the new PLA target means that China has fully grasped the size and electromagnetic characteristics of the American Ford-class aircraft carriers. Ford is not in the seas of East Asia, nor in the Atlantic. Therefore, it is worth intriguing how China acquired its electromagnetic properties. The exterior of the Ford and the radar communications it uses are largely public. At present, China has made great progress in the development of radar electronics, which can not only develop a variety of advanced systems for the people's army, but also effectively carry out the development of the US system, and lay a solid technical foundation for the research and development of China's target ships.
China's target warship also has a unique feature, that is, by setting up railroad tracks on land to allow the target ship to move, so as to achieve an effect similar to that of driving on the sea. This is the key to testing the performance of the missile. From the missile hits the target, it takes a certain amount of time. During this time, aircraft carriers may be able to operate further. In this range, capturing a moving aircraft carrier and carrying out precision strikes is the key to its navigation and control. Such a big action goal is technically complex and expensive, and few people can do it.
According to the footage released overseas, the simulated Ford was not subjected to artillery fire, and no bullet marks were found in its cockpit. It seems to have been built recently. I think it won't be long before different types of missiles hit me. Since 1996, when the US military dispatched two aircraft carriers into the Taiwan Strait to provoke the PLA, the Americans have had "surprises" every year, from the Dongfeng-21, Dongfeng-26, Dongfeng-17 supersonic missiles, to the now mature anti-ship ballistic missiles aimed at aircraft carriers and other large ships.
Therefore, the Americans have behaved very well recently, their aircraft carriers never sail beyond the waters of Taiwan. I think that in wartime, it is impossible for US aircraft carriers to get close to the coast of China for 1,500 kilometers, and don't think that the Americans often send warships to "sail freely", because they know very well that under normal circumstances, they will not attack them, but in wartime, even if they are allowed to go, they will not go, and their "Dongfeng Express" will give them the best treatment.