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July 20, 2006
Huge Scale Model of Disputed Border Region of China Found in Google Earth
This is one of the most interesting finds in Google Earth in quite some time. A few weeks ago a first time poster, called KenGrok, at the Google Earth Community (GEC) discovered a very exact scale model of some mountainous region located in the middle of a desolate area in north central China. Seen in Google Earth 
the huge scale model is .9 km tall by .7 km wide. It is adjacent to what looks like a military base with many camouflaged vehicles. Last week, the same poster found the location the scale model represents - a region occupied by China but claimed by India near north central India. If you turn on the "Borders" layer in GE you will see they are colored red to indicate the dispute. Another GEC member showed how exact the scale model is by taking a screen shot of the satellite photo of the scale model and overlaying it over the real terrain (turn the image overlay on and off to see how exact it is). This scale model was most likely created for military reasons. Someone posted a description of why a military terrain visualization is critical for military purposes.
In the same thread above, several other interesting locations were found close to the scale model:
- Model of an airport? - Post
- Circle with fighter jets - a radar cross section range according to another post
You can also find other examples of military terrain models - see this Urban Warfare Training Center for the US Army.
Other amazing finds in Google Earth:
Posted by FrankTaylor at July 20, 2006 6:26 AM
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Posted by: Hugo at July 21, 2006 1:33 PM
If I'm not wrong, scale of the model is, aproximately, 1:500
Posted by: Marc B. at July 21, 2006 6:17 PM
i think the numbers in chinese military area are some type of code . i think if we join the numbers 1-2-3..etc.. we get chinese alphabet (not sure). it may also be codes for fighter pilots who can see from above.
Posted by: zain at October 1, 2006 4:10 AM
Those letters say: Ski Slope
Posted by: kag at November 16, 2006 6:14 PM
These Chinese people think by doing all this they will be well equipped/ trained to fight India!!!...ha!!..
The world politics should see this and take notice of this. What they are doing is not at all Justified.
Posted by: groovy at March 2, 2007 5:23 AM
my concern is if china goes to war with india they might trash our economy to make sure we can't do anything on either side, especially since they own something like 90% of our national debt. Facto in the new missile sub and all the other purchases. I don't expect it next month, but sometime in the next quarter century china will do something big and stupid that will see a return to massive nationstates slugging it out and its either gonna be us and china or china and india.
Posted by: eric at July 10, 2007 1:16 AM
Maybe its some sort of controlled environment and they're doing experiments and on people. Who knows, it could even be a rel life "Lost".
Posted by: Red Rasta at October 3, 2007 7:20 AM
They are testing the giant father of all conventional bomb
Posted by: Shun jing at January 19, 2009 7:06 PM
let's not forget the footage is from april 2005... 4 years old!!!
Posted by: smokeonit at June 27, 2009 8:44 PM
The model airport and jets sitting in a circle along with all the other items in the area are simply targets in a bomber/fighter test site. You can find similar target sets in the Nevada desert.
The real issue with China-India military planning is that China needs more water resources to both create electricity and to feed growing croplands. In order to get it they want to redirect the moutain originated rivers, that currently flow into India, to go to China instead. They know doing so would, by necessity, start a war with India. So they are creating area-by-area war plans and working out all the logistics and contingencies in advance.
Posted by: phutton11 at September 26, 2009 12:53 AM
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If you hoover around that Chinese "military" area you will see large numbers carved on top of the mountains. Any idea what those might be?