{"id":130263,"date":"2021-11-08T18:23:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/china-constructs-fake-us-warships-for-potential-target-practice-images-show"},"modified":"2021-11-08T18:23:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:23:51","slug":"china-constructs-fake-us-warships-for-potential-target-practice-images-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/china-constructs-fake-us-warships-for-potential-target-practice-images-show","title":{"rendered":"China constructs fake US warships for potential target practice, images show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-constructs-fake-us-warships-for-potential-target-practice-images-show.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s military has built a fake US Navy aircraft carrier and other warships for possible missile target practice, according to new satellite images published Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The images, captured by Colorado-based satellite imagery company Maxar Technologies, show a full-scale outline of a carrier and at least two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers at what appears to be a new target range complex in the Taklamakan Desert, part of China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/03\/uighur-exiles-describe-forced-abortions-torture-in-xinjiang\/\">notorious Xinjiang province<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the mockups included the funnels and weapons systems featured on the destroyers, according to an analysis by the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2021\/11\/07\/china-builds-missile-targets-shaped-like-u-s-aircraft-carrier-destroyers-in-remote-desert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US Naval Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s military has built a fake US Navy aircraft carrier and other warships for possible missile target practice, according to new satellite images published Sunday. The images, captured by Colorado-based satellite imagery company Maxar Technologies, show a full-scale outline of a carrier and at least two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers at what appears to be a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}