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The Hobbit Air Force

November
14, 2006: Satellite photos, from sources like Google Earth, clearly show that
China is building more underground storage facilities for its growing fleet of
Su-27/30 warplanes. These aircraft are being build, under license, in China, as
well as being imported from Russia. With over 200 of these aircraft, and more
coming into service each year, China has an incentive to protect these high
value targets. Taiwan is testing a precision cruise missile that could hit
Su-27s parked in the open, or conventional above-ground concrete shelters. So
taking it underground makes sense. These shelters are more expensive to build, and
use (they require expensive ventilation, and more effort from ground crews to
move the aircraft in and out.) But if China goes to war with anyone, these
aircraft are their most modern, and only chance of maintaining control of
Chinese air space.

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