A real life-size silhouette of the aircraft carrier American Gerald R. Ford. It is located in China, in Xinjiang Province, in the Taklamakan Desert. And it is part of the Chinese army's strategy to enable the training of its soldiers and technical equipment. The satellite photos proving its presence come from Planet Labs Inc. and were published by The war zone. This is certainly nothing new for Beijing, which has been building real targets that resemble individual U.S. entities over the past few decades. The aim is to promote military training for air and missile attacks in the event of war in the Pacific. The People's Liberation Army has a huge arsenal of anti-ship and cruise missiles.
