Where Did China Get This F-22 Raptor?
February 21, 2016 in News by D
A sleepy airport in rural China is not where you’d expect to find America’s latest and greatest fighter plane. And yet at some point in the last six weeks a F-22 Raptor-or full-sized copy of one-was sighted by commercial imaging satellites parked at Pucheng Neifu Airport in China.
In the images, the fifth generation fighter is clearly parked alongside two rows of what appear to be cropdusting airplanes.
Located at Shaanxi provinece in central China, Pucheng Neifu Airport is not even remotely a military airport. There is no obvious link between it and the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). It has the layout of a rural civilian airport found in any country, with a single runway, large tarmac, and control tower. An examination of satellite imagery indicates anywhere from seven to nine civilian planes are parked there at any one time.
It has none of the characteristics of a military airbase such as other (real) military aircraft, hardened aircraft shelters, surface to air missile and gun emplacements, or munitions bunkers. Here’s an example of a typical PLAAF base just outside Weifang for comparison
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