AWACS (E-3 Sentry) som treningsmål i Gobiørkenen i Kina - The War Zone

China Is Using E-3 Sentry Mockups For Targets On Its Ballistic Missile Impact Range

The U.S. Air Force's E-3s would be at the top of China's target list should a conflict erupt between it and the United States.

BY TYLER ROGOWAY NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Images The War Zone obtained from Planet Labs (seen at the top of this article) dated August 28th, 2021, shows two full-size E-3 mockups sitting on the main runway-like target that is part of one of the most well-established weapons testing range complexes in China's Gobi Desert. It's the same area that saw the emergence of ship and pier-like shapes used for ballistic missile development in the last decade and a half. Today, many of those features have been dismantled as the aforementioned higher fidelity targets have taken their place in the same general region.