USS John McCain
Posted on 06/19/2009 6:08:19 PM PDT by Steelfish
Pictured: The massive floating destroyer the Americans are sending to keep North Korean missiles at bay
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 19th June 2009
USS John McCain: The destroyer has been deployed to intercept a North Korean vessel suspected of carrying illicit weapons
The U.S. military is planning to intercept a North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit nuclear materials and missiles.
Navy destroyer the USS John McCain has been deployed to intercept the Kang Nam as it leaves the coast of China, according to a senior US defence official.
The ship, which left a port in North Korea on Wednesday, appears to be heading towards Singapore.
Its suspected cargo is in violation of a UN Security Council resolution passed last Friday, and it is now being constantly monitored by air.
The Kang Nam is the first ship the U.S. has tracked from North Korea since the UN imposed sanctions following the country's recent nuclear test.
The resolution bans North Korea from exporting a wide range of weaponry - but does not allow the US to forcibly board the vessel.
Instead, they would have to ask for permission - which, in all likelihood, would not be granted.
North Korea has already stated that any attempt to board its ships without permisson would be viewed as an act of war.
It promised '100- or 1,000-fold' retaliation if provoked.
The latest tension follows a recent report in Japan's Yomiuri newspaper that North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July.
The Taepodong-2 missile has a range of 4,000 miles, but even though Hawaii is 4500 miles away, the US has already deployed anti-missile defences around the state.
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My headline:
“Obama sends McCain to deal with NK threat”
As opposed to a non-floating destroyer?
Big sounding story, but according to the fine print, we aren’t going to do anything.
“Big sounding story, but according to the fine print, we aren’t going to do anything.”
Just like the senator nothing good will be done!
USS John McCain
Well it is massive, so that it floats may shock some. The headline makes it sound like it isn't even under power.
Sunny beaches! It FLOATS! I am stuneded.
Since when is a Destroyer a “massive” ship. They are used as life boats for Air Craft carriers.
GO USNA!
It promised ‘100- or 1,000-fold’ retaliation if provoked.
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If so,we could give them a 5 megaton retaliation.
Remember last week or so. This is the same ship that caught a Chinese sub in its towed array.
LOL
LMAO. Right it's just floating. Like my rubber duckie.
Massive? Destroyers have a nickname, Tin Can for a reason. Massive is the Ronald Reagan or any CVN ship. 5000 sailors in one ship. Small city on the move.
Awesome pic! Thanks
“The resolution bans North Korea from exporting a wide range of weaponry - but does not allow the US to forcibly board the vessel.
Instead, they would have to ask for permission - which, in all likelihood, would not be granted. “
So...we ask to inspect the ship...NK refuses and then that’s it? Welcome to the Era of Useless Diplomacy..
The U.S. Navy commissioned the guided missile destroyer JOHN S. McCAIN on Saturday, July 2, 1994 at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine!
Leni
No, they’ll first want 0 to give them a deep bow when asking for permission and then give him a kick up his rear.
What has become of the US???? We all must now bow our heads in shame for this election (52.7% win) that gave us this “tingle up our spine” of a different sort.
Hopefully it becomes a new playground for aquatic life below it.
NEVER name anything after a living person.
Then again, the John McCain IS massive compared to the 692 class cans from WW2, she(he?) is as large as a old cruiser, and more powerful than a battleship.
Jack
It's named after his grandfather.
NEVER name anything after a living person.
Named after Admiral John McCain, the senator’s father.
Jack
http://navysite.de/dd/ddg56.htm
General Characteristics: Keel Laid: September 3, 1991
Launched: September 26, 1992
Commissioned: July 2, 1994
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Propulsion system: four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines
Propellers: two
Blades on each Propeller: five
Length: 505,25 feet (154 meters)
(LWL aprox.: 490 feet, Hull Speed: 29 knots)(1.34 X SR LWL)
Beam: 67 feet (20.4 meters)
Draft: 30,5 feet (9.3 meters)
Displacement: approx. 8.300 tons full load
Speed: 30+ knots
Aircraft: None. But LAMPS 3 electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG/helicopter ASW operations.
Armament: two MK 41 VLS for Standard missiles, Tomahawk; Harpoon missile launchers, one Mk 45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight gun, two Phalanx CIWS, Mk 46 torpedoes (from two triple tube mounts)
Homeport: Yokosuka, Japan
Crew: 23 Officers, 24 Chief Petty Officers and 291 Enlisted
My Thought Exactly!
Meanwhile ... SecDef Clinton calls her recent fall and and right elbow fracture more proof of the “vast, right wing, conspiracy”.
Destroyers have 16 inch guns?
Trumps 16 guns. By miles.
It promised ‘100- or 1,000-fold’ retaliation if provoked.
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We should answer that we don’t care because they will not be able to hurt US, just our economic competitors
GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY PUNK
Yes, and this in a British newspaper. They were once a seagoing folk.
Lord Nelson must be spinning.
My bad. Sorry about that.
Not a problem.
I believe this is the destroyer that had it’s towed array run over by the Chinese last month.
I’ll always wonder what percentage of the 52.7% win was legit. I bet if you took away the dead, multiple and illegal voters the socialists would have lost.
It may prove to be beneficial to have a ship in the area around July 4.
Especially when you realize the margin of victory in some states maipulating the electoral college. His treachery began as early as Iowa. He got the unexpected win from his brigades coming to the same day caucuses.
He continue his treachery by packing the repub votes in new hampshire with “independents” giving us McCain.
Obamas win is a very technical treachery, done by manipulating a caucus-heavy democrat approach, with zealots who built a small cult. And his photo everywhere still creeps me out.
I'll say this: It's nice to see something named "McCain" on the opposite side of a hostile alien confrontation for a change.
I wonder what the future USS Barack Obama will look like.
me... i still remember actually massive ships.... BATTLESHIPS (20,000 - 131,000 tons)
iowa clearing her throat
a few more guns
While I’m tempted to make a crack or two about the likely attributes of a ship named after John McCain, I won’t out of respect for her crew. They can’t help it their ship has such a crappy name.
Outside of nuclear warheads, only in your dreams, does this vessel have greater destructive power than a battle ship.
The missiles have greater range.
the destroyer has limited missiles.
Most of the destroyer’s warheads carry less than a ton of HE if I’m not mistaken.
A BB can hurl HE warheads which weigh as much a a vw 26
miles all day. And the MO upgrades installed vertical launch missile tubes as well I beleive.
I don’t think it would fire a shot. We wouldnt even sink or recapture the USS Pueblo a few years ago. The Norks towed it from their east coast to the west. They completely rounded the Korean penninsula in international waters!
And today there are SERIOUS issues before we shoot at it.
Under Obama, We would accept impact, then *possibly* retaliate. I mean, how do we KNOW a warhead is even on it, it might just be a test. And how would we like it if someone shot at OUR test missile headed towards Kwajalien? And besides, do we think we OWN the whole Pacific? Thats a zone reserved for the UN!
I almost believe they could hit Oahu, claim it was a mistake, and Obama wouldn’t shoot back. He won’t ever shoot a socialist comrade brother.
The ship is named after the Senator’s admiral father, who was commander of pacific forces in Vietnam, and his admiral grandfather, who was on the Missouri when Japan surrendered and passed away immediately after returning home from the war.
The Titantic. Too big for its own good. Reputation based only on press hype, not on substance. Destined to sink.
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