Posted on 06/19/2009 8:44:14 AM PDT by maquiladora
The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense official.
The U.S. military is seeking to intercept a flagged North Korean ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned.
The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense official.
The ship left a port in North Korea Wednesday and appears to be heading toward Singapore, according to a senior U.S. military source. The vessel, which the military has been tracking since its departure, could be carrying weaponry, missile parts or nuclear materials.
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Chins got no place to huff and puff. They have been asked repeatedly to reign in this character. All they give is lip service or rip service. They are more afraid of a unified Korea.
A bow shot square on the hull will flood the cargo ship and sink it, preventing the North Korean contraband from reaching its destination.
Only if it reaches one of our ports.
the plan is to ask the port not to refuel them.
We don’t have permission to board their ships in any event unless they are in US territory is my understanding.
Dang. Better find my checkbook.
[They (China)are more afraid of a unified Korea.]
This is a national security concern of China’s but economically China would probably gain from unification. China is South Korea’s top import-export partner. The rebuilding of the North could be a bonanza for Chinese companies.
A stern letter MAY work, but in this instance a more satisfying delivery would be launched over the bow.
for this operation.
Obama will oppose them but not his Iranian buddies who are getting closer to buidling a nuclear bomb.
The big concern appears to be NK proliferating its nukes to Iran or Syria for cash as it already has missile technology.
The Kang Nam should be on track to leave Chinese waters off Hainan Island around Sunday night US time, assuming it makes about 12 knots. This is when it might get interesting.
Could be, but I think the S Koreans would rather reap the benefits. The Chins don’t want a strong Korea and Japan. They are strong now, but could grow even stronger.
Pretty sad if it's true, but very appropriate given who the boat (they say "ship" nowadays but I'm old Navy) is named for.
It was always a bad idea to start naming ships for politicians (Carl Vinson comes to mind, and the George H.W. Bush), now they'll never stop naming our most powerful Fleet units for assorted hacks, timeservers, and poltroons, and squabbling in Congress about what gets named for whom. I halfway expect Obama to rename the George H.W. Bush for Slick Willie or Huey Newton, or hell, even Che Guevara.
Ah, screw. Just send them a very sincere Mark 19 instead.
If he did, and then they do, then how slow was he?
How do the newer models mounted in the Arleigh Burke class stack up to that?
Also, are they (or not) based on the Italian OTO design of 30 years ago? Just wondering.
No more calls please, we have a winner !!
Knock it off, RiNO dweebs. You guys post like Letterman.
The Mark 45 gun, I believe, now features an extended range guided munition out to 63 nm. The 76-mm Oto molara gun now has a much faster rate of fire, 120 rpm.
Good points. I read that here when it was commissioned. Don’t know if it’s true. For all I know they refer to all subs by number as a practice, or either number or name.
What's the normal range of the Mark 45 without using the guided subcaliber rounds?
NAVORD fooled around with subcaliber rounds in 8" guns during Vietnam; they reportedly got ranges out to 60 nm. I've no idea whether those were guided rounds (like the contemporary Shillelagh used in the Sheridan's 155mm gun/launcher). There were some daydreams back then of doing the same thing for the Iowa class's 16-inchers.
The ROF on the OTO gun sounds outstanding. During WWI, American artillerymen serving "French 75's" tied down their lanyards and managed to achieve about 50-60 rpm. The Germans came to apprehend that someone had invented a fully-automatic 75mm cannon. Old scuttlebutt story told me by my dad.
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