China’s landlocked carrier
China has constructed what looks like an aircraft carrier — but it is stuck far inland, and indeed dwarves the small body of water to which it is adjacent. The thing is almost the size of a mammoth Nimitz-class carrier, and it has what appears to be jets and helicopters on what appears to be ...
China has constructed what looks like an aircraft carrier -- but it is stuck far inland, and indeed dwarves the small body of water to which it is adjacent.
The thing is almost the size of a mammoth Nimitz-class carrier, and it has what appears to be jets and helicopters on what appears to be its flight deck.
But is not a mock carrier for practice, but actually part of a kind of Communist Disney World, reports this blog.
China has constructed what looks like an aircraft carrier — but it is stuck far inland, and indeed dwarves the small body of water to which it is adjacent.
The thing is almost the size of a mammoth Nimitz-class carrier, and it has what appears to be jets and helicopters on what appears to be its flight deck.
But is not a mock carrier for practice, but actually part of a kind of Communist Disney World, reports this blog.
(HT to John McCreary and NightWatch)
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