[Star Traveler]

You said — “It was originally designed for this purpose only. The older SURTASS ships were monohulls.”

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Quote from article — “The Impeccable is a minesweeper...”

Then why is it said to be a minesweeper.

They’re already reporting what it’s doing in using the sonar for detecting Chinese subs — so it makes no sense to report the ship as being a different kind of ship, saying a “minesweeper”... (in other words, I didn’t make up the designation... :-) ...)

[Oztrich Boy]

Then why is it said to be a minesweeper.

Because the media knows jack about the military and sucks at research

In this case they typed USS Impeccable (It's a US navy ship, right?) unto google and came up with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Impeccable_(AM-320)

Whereas the correct query "USNS Impeccable" gives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Impeccable_(T-AGOS-23)

[stuartcr]

That part of the article is incorrect. Just do a search on the ship or on US minesweepers..

[smokingfrog]

I’m pretty sure that modern day minesweepers do not have metal hulls.