Huangyangtan Mystery

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Ariel View Of The Huangyangtan Military Facility

The Huangyangtan mystery, is an alleged military base constructed on the west side of an remote Chinese village of Huangyangtan in China. The base contains approximately an 500:1 scale terrain model of a mountainous landscape which resembles that of a disputed area of land called Aksai Chin on the Chinese/Indian border.

1 Aksai Chin
2 Speculation
3 Comparison Of Land
4 Mystery Solved?
5 External Links

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Aksai Chin

Aksai Chin is an region located between India, China and Pakistan. It is administered over by China but claimed by India. Aksai Chin is one of two major boarder disputes between China and India, the other being Arunachal Pradesh. The region is nothing but vast desert of no economic value for either country as it contain's no permanent settlements and is uninhabited.

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Speculation

In June 2006, a Google Earth user discovered the apparant military installation adjacent to Tibet. It has been known for countries to build replica's of battlegrounds for military training especially in the Cold War period. However due to the scale and shear size of the military installation speculation over its apparant purpose have flourished upon the Internet. Some theories include:

Terain visualization training for Chinese pilot's.
A model to test out chemical weapons and their payload over such an area.
Tank terain training. (This however is not militarily possible due to the mountainess terrain)

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Comparison Of Land

The image below shows an conparison of the military training ground with the Aksai Chin region. Note the similarities each image contains, which has led to the speculation as mentioned above.

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Mystery Solved?

After the rise in interest in this apparant military installation, local authorities in Ningxia, maintain that the installation is nothing but a tank training facility. These claims however are disputed due to the lack of tanks, (Counter-argued to be stored in the red building's of the base) the terain of the "sandbox" not being able to accomindate the tanks and the similarities to Aksai Chin being to obvious, that its a mock up of the land for training purposes in case of war with India over the disputed land.

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