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Second U.S. Aircraft Carrier Missile Target Spotted in Chinese Desert
U.S. Naval Institute ^ | November 9, 2021 | H I Sutton

Posted on 11/10/2021 10:46:36 AM PST by Retain Mike

A second suspected missile target in the shape of a U.S. aircraft carrier has been spotted in a rural Chinese desert, according to satellite photos obtained by USNI News.

The site consists of a single aircraft carrier target, miles from the nearest town in the Xinjiang region, according to photos provided to USNI News by satellite imagery company Maxar. The carrier target is about 300 miles away from a larger suspected missile range in the Taklamakan Desert, first reported by USNI News on Sunday. The two sites share similar characteristics and are aligned on a map with the carriers facing the same direction – as if in a convoy. Like the first, this new target shares the same dimensions as a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: aircraftcarrier; china; target
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1 posted on 11/10/2021 10:46:36 AM PST by Retain Mike
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To: Retain Mike

psyops, chinese style

we should build a really big dam in the sw nevada desert


2 posted on 11/10/2021 10:48:11 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Retain Mike

Test targets for the DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile?


3 posted on 11/10/2021 10:48:32 AM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: Retain Mike

At least WW3 should deflect attention from Covid, Covid, Covid.


4 posted on 11/10/2021 10:52:55 AM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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To: Flick Lives

......yes, indeed....and as we all turn into crispy critters, we’ll at least be wearing our face diapers and will have had our mandatory vaxx......


5 posted on 11/10/2021 10:56:40 AM PST by TokarevM57
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To: Retain Mike

If we ever invade the Gobi Desert they will be ready for us.


6 posted on 11/10/2021 10:57:07 AM PST by oil_dude
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To: Retain Mike

Can you say “sitting duck”? I knew you could!


7 posted on 11/10/2021 10:58:44 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

Carriers make defense contractors rich.

If the Chinese destroy them the contractors will just build new ones.


8 posted on 11/10/2021 11:00:32 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Retain Mike

China using a fake American warship as a target???Wait till Brandon hears about this outrage. He’ll give them a real one to use.


9 posted on 11/10/2021 11:03:35 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Retain Mike

We should use their targets, let them feel our Mach 12 cruise missile.


10 posted on 11/10/2021 11:04:51 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Secret Agent Man

“we should build a really big dam in the sw nevada desert”

LOLOLOLOL! Too perfect!


11 posted on 11/10/2021 11:05:49 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Retain Mike

We should put up lots of fake targets like that in our deserts so the Chicoms will waste hypersonic missiles taking out particleboard. Oh, I forgot, it’s our leaders/commanders who are senile Brandons and genderloons, not theirs.


12 posted on 11/10/2021 11:09:44 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Retain Mike

Is this psy ops designed to make us more pliable?


13 posted on 11/10/2021 11:27:46 AM PST by ryderann
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To: cgbg

“ Carriers make defense contractors rich.
If the Chinese destroy them the contractors will just build new ones.”
*************

The Chinese development of their hypersonic missile now in beta will render our carriers obsolete. And, it will be impossible to defend Taiwan without them.


14 posted on 11/10/2021 11:28:50 AM PST by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: Retain Mike

Rural desert? As opposed to an urban one?


15 posted on 11/10/2021 11:33:36 AM PST by AloneInMass (You'd think there would be more similarity between "chain letter" and "chain mail".)
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To: Flick Lives

That is a Cheerful thought
and I agree the Wuhan Hoax
would fade into obscurity as War Powers would probably kick in.


16 posted on 11/10/2021 11:36:20 AM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: Retain Mike

Why is this a surprise?
What else would anyone expect them to practice on?

Or... Is the chicom General-in-charge related to, or plagiarizing from, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery?

If Trump was still President, we’d have practice targets the closely resemble large dams...

I wonder if, for the sake of realism, the chicoms have the rainbow flags on the carrier targets...


17 posted on 11/10/2021 11:36:36 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Little Ray

I would drop a US bomb on it first and destroy their target.


18 posted on 11/10/2021 11:54:48 AM PST by Delta 21 (Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.)
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To: AloneInMass

So California is a urban one


19 posted on 11/10/2021 12:00:08 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Retain Mike

They had this years ago. Let’s pee our pants.


20 posted on 11/10/2021 12:02:27 PM PST by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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