Can China afford to blow up an American Ford-class aircraft carrier? Let's talk about the conclusion first, it must be possible, it must be possible!
Because China has already bombed the American Ford-class aircraft carriers more than once.
The Taklamakan Desert, a barren land, is nothing.
However, barren land also has the use of barren land, and the mainland has built many missile ranges and bombing ranges in this barren land.
For example, the USS Ford and the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in the United States have a 1:1 replica of the target model in the Taklamakan Desert. According to satellite photos, we have already conducted many weapons tests here, and the target has been hit with potholes, and basically all the new equipment we have developed has to be put on the road here.
In the early years, the mainland's target was just a large cement pier, which was the same size and appearance, but in recent years, with the mainland's technological development and the achievements of intelligence work, our shooting range has become more and more like a real target. The first is the aircraft carrier target, China's aircraft carrier target used to be a fixed target, but now it has directly become a mobile target, which can simulate the state of a real aircraft carrier moving at sea by moving in the desert.
Of course, this is not the most powerful, the most powerful is the Arleigh Burke destroyer target built by the mainland. To a certain extent, this destroyer has radar stealth function, and the mainland-built destroyer target not only fits the shape and can be moved, but also has a large number of corner reflectors installed to imitate the quasi-radar stealth appearance of the Arleigh Burke destroyer. It's closer to actual combat when shooting targets.
In addition to ship targets, China has also built US base targets, aircraft targets, and even Taiwan's city targets.
The "Bulgarian Military" website said on the 21st that China has built many air base targets near the Taklamakan Desert, and these targets are built against the Iwakuni Marine Corps Base and Kadena Air Base of the US military stationed in Japan. A large number of U.S. F-35 fighter jets are parked at both bases, and Kadena Air Base is home to U.S. F-22 fighter units. This is also the only weapon that can fight air combat with China's J-20 aircraft.
As the targets built by China demonstrate, the United States does not have various air defense and anti-bombing facilities at these bases, including reinforced hangars, which makes the defense capabilities of these bases themselves very weak, and the only advantage is intelligence superiority, and the Americans can hide their aircraft before the war to avoid being taken away by the Chinese wave.
But now the base targets built by the mainland in the desert prove that we know inside out where American aircraft are deployed. The location of not only stealth aircraft, but even P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft, as well as large aircraft such as AWACS, transport aircraft, air tankers, etc., is known.
The idea of hiding the position of the aircraft with home field advantage is simply not going to succeed. In the eyes of the PLA, the planes of the US military stationed in Japan are no different from running naked.
Although the U.S. Air Force said in 2022 that it is useless to hide the aircraft, if you don't build reinforced hangars, missile bunkers, and reinforced bunkers, no matter how you hide the location of the aircraft, it is useless. However, it is not possible to stand up to the illusions of the top level of the United States.
However, now the PLA's targets prove how ridiculous their idea of covering their ears and stealing the bell really is.
In addition to the US military stationed in Japan, Taiwan is also a "frequent visitor" of the PLA's targets.
It's just that Taiwan's targets are not only in the Taklamakan Desert, but also in Zhu Rihe, and Zhu Rihe's is not a target, but a simulated battlefield for marines and paratroopers, and it is also a target in a broad sense.
Here is a 1:1 replica of Taipei City's Bo'ai Special Zone, that is, the administrative center of Taiwan's puppet government, which is the core area of Taipei City. For example, Taiwan's puppet "puppet presidential palace", National Taiwan University Hospital and other key landmark buildings are all here.
Of course, if it's just an imitation of the appearance, I won't say anything, according to the content given on the satellite map, we can see that even the underground bunker in Zhu Rihe's training base here, as well as the escape passage of the dignitaries, are clearly marked. Although Taiwan's puppet government has been planning to use the innocent people in the National Taiwan University Hospital as meat shields to block the PLA once the war breaks out. However, our army already has sufficient means of precision strikes and offensive routes, and it is possible to cut off the escape routes of the leaders of the "Taiwan independence" forces without harming the "National Taiwan University Hospital."
Although China has not been at war for several years, we have been preparing for it. Any contingencies on the battlefield are part of our rehearsal plan.