The Taklamakan Desert in northwest China’s Xinjiang province is one of the driest places on earth, with an average of 36 millimeters of precipitation per year. You wouldn’t expect an aircraft carrier in this place, which is about 3,000 kilometers from the ocean. And yet silhouettes of enormous warships rise from the sand…
In the Taklamakan Desert, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army is testing new technologies, far away from larger settlements. Huge Zeppelin hangars have also been spotted here. And more and more ‘ships’ are appearing in the region – most recently a 330-metre-long structure whose outline resembles that of the currently most powerful American warship, the USS Gerald R. Ford. Building a super aircraft carrier in one of the driest places on earth may seem surprising. But it is indispensable to China’s security strategy.
Source: Krone
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