The circular object shows aircraft similar to the MiG-15. But this does not look like an Air Force base, said military expert Viktor Drozdenko, who at the request of the VZGLYAD newspaper assessed the strange find in the picture in the Gobi Desert.
On Monday, there were reports that bloggers from YouTube channel Thirdphaseofmoon had discovered several strange objects in the desert region of Gansu province in northern China. It is very easy to check the find by entering coordinates in Google maps. The authors of the channel devoted to "flying saucers" suggested that the objects could be "an alien take-off pad" or a secret military base. But is it worth immediately looking for traces of an extraterrestrial civilization in the find?
“I watched the video. I don't think this is some kind of fake. The circular object clearly shows the silhouettes of aircraft similar to the MiG-15, on which Yuri Gagarin still flew, "- notes a military expert, columnist for the magazine" Arsenal of the Fatherland "Valery Drozdenko. We add that the MiG-15 aircraft were produced in the USSR until the end of the 1950s, and under license - including in China.
“There are no buildings around. If there are really fighters in the center, then, based on their size, the height of the circular objects is no more than two meters, judging by the shadows cast by them. Some kind of wrecked vans? " - Drozdenko continues. “There are dirt roads around - this is the only object that can be clearly interpreted,” the interlocutor notes. - The fact is that the whole complex does not look like an Air Force facility. X-shaped tracks - can be mistaken for some kind of taxiing lanes, but this is not so: after all, taxiing is laid along the wind rose, the lanes are not arranged crosswise. This is clearly not for aircraft landing, and there is no landing space. Perhaps this is something for studying radiation, explosions."
This is most likely a fairly old object. One of the lines that can be seen in the video looks like a strip, but the bed of a dried-up river or a trace of groundwater already passes along it, Drozdenko noted. "The impression is like from the geoglyphs of the Nazca Desert (the same dry terrain as the Gobi Desert), but this is clearly a man-made object, and not so ancient," the source says. "So I think the conspiracy games will continue."
We add that the Gobi Desert is not so empty from the point of view of China's nuclear, missile and space programs. Since 1958, on the border of Gansu Province and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, there is a "Chinese Baikonur" - a cosmodrome and Jiuquan missile range.
Thanks to the Google Earth service, the world learned that to the north of the launch sites of this test site, also in the Gobi Desert, there is a target field and monitoring equipment for taking readings from the warheads of ballistic missiles under test. It was here, according to American sources, that DF-21D medium-range missiles were successfully tested several years ago.
According to open Chinese data, new models of fighters (for example, "Chengdu" J-10A) are being tested at a test center in the Gobi Desert. Judging by the publications in the Western press, we are talking about the Air Force Combat Use Center, which is located at the Dingxin military airfield in Inner Mongolia. It is reported that not far from this base there is a missile range, where mock-ups and samples of military equipment, including western ones, for example, dummies of the Patriot complex, are installed.
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Chinese military installations in desert areas were in the eyes of the Soviet military. The Soviet Lena-M radar station was deployed 93 kilometers south of Ulan Bator, designed to track missile launches from the Jiuquan test site and nuclear tests at the Lop Nor test site. In the East Gobi aimag of the Mongolian People's Republic, there were Sainshand and Khara-Aimak jump airfields, which were used by the USSR Air Force.
We add that the Gobi Desert is not the only "wild corner" of China, where military technology has been and is being tested. For example, in the mid-2000s, there were reports of the construction of a high-altitude airfield on the Iron Iron Plateau in Sichuan province, at an altitude of up to four thousand meters.
Mikhail Moshkin