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| Bizarre Chinese Installation Has Scale Model Of Mountainous China-India Border |
| 2006-07-21 |
| Those among you who like your skies darkened by black helicopters are invited to mosey on down to the remote Chinese village of Huangyangtan which hosts what must be the strangest military installation ever spotted by the Google Earth Community: Zooming in for a closer look, we have what appears to be a 900x700m scale model of a mountainous landscape... ...complete with lakes, valleys and snow-capped peaks: Truly bizarre. Google Earth aficionados can examine the evidence for themselves here (.kmz) while wondering what on Earth, or where on Earth for that matter, this remarkable landscaping project is. Don't, however, spend the next three days scouring the world's mountain ranges trying to find a geographical match: the legwork has already been done for you by this enterprising Google Earth Community member who correctly identified the model as representing this disputed area on the Chinese/Indian border. Here's a comparison of the Chinese model and the Google Earth image of the region in question... ...while a closer look reveals the meticulous attention to detail: It's clear that a huge amount of time and resources has been invested in this perplexing scale model, which incidentally represents an area of around 450 by 350 kilometers. The big question is: why? The only sensible explanation we can come up with is that it's a training aid for pilots - possibly helicopter jockeys - designed to familiarise them with the landscape should military action ever be required. No doubt you lot can come up with some better suggestions, but while you ponder this mystery keep one eye open for the black helicopters of Huangyangtan. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #8 Becha they forgot Shangri-La, and the Valley of the Blue Moon.... High Lama Conway will feel so left out... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2006-07-21 16:02 |
| #7 Somebody took a tour of the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Park, and remembered the NYC Panorama. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2006-07-21 12:20 |
| #6 This was probably the pet project of some commie General who wanted to put his idiot artist son to work for the summer on the parties dime. "I think he's retarded," General Yap said. "But he's my son so I got him the gig. I knew it would impress the Party bosses, if you've ever seen how they get gooey eyed around Kim Jung Il's model train set you'd know what I mean." |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-07-21 11:52 |
| #5 Advocates of India choosing the F-18 Super Hornet for its MRCA fighter tender point out that China is already familiar with the Su-30 Flanker (it has its own versions, though without the French, Indian and Israeli avionics that the Indian versions have) and with the F-16 (courtesy of Pakistan which supplied one to China for an attempt at reverse engineering). In a conflict with China, the unknown F-18 with its air to ground munitions would be an advantage. |
| Posted by: john 2006-07-21 08:50 |
| #4 Lehmann Grosse Bahn layout. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-07-21 08:41 |
| #3 just planning for the "tourist train" routes |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-07-21 08:35 |
| #2 Those of us old enough to remember the '62 Chinese invasion of India are hardly surprised... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2006-07-21 01:13 |
| #1 Chicom ambitions for [East] Asian-Pacific hegemony is being steadily obstructed by US-Allied geopol arrangements-treatises - short of war, the Chicoms have to go south [India-SE/SW Asia-Aussies-Africa]or andor west [Russia-Central Asia]. In any case, the Commies-Maoists have supporting local terror orgs-networks for years and decades before 9-11, and have intensified efforts post 9-11. Theres always the "liberation" of Mother Cindy's Bush- and Fascist-occupied CONUS-NORAM, aka Clintonian sacred Socialist-Communist, Hated Despicable Nazi = Well-meaning but grotesquely defective HalfCommunist-Stalinist, Amerika. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-07-21 00:44 |