Chinese warship in 'unsafe' encounter with US destroyer, amid rising US-China tensions

CNN ^ | 1:21 PM ET, Mon October 1, 2018 | Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne,

[donozark]

Admiral Wang Wei?

[RinaseaofDs]

45 yards?

That’s way close. Stupid close.

I was in the Arctic and we were operating in the ice with a Canadian Icebreaker, the Grosilliers.

Our captains were trying to figure out who’s dick was bigger and started doing stupid things in the ice. The Canadian breaker came within about 50 yards of our stern breaking ice at about 10 knots.

Good thing he knew his ice. Multiyear ice tends to toss the boat to one side of your trackline or the other.

[BenLurkin]

[chief lee runamok]

It’s past time for a luyang destroyer to meet the bottom of the ocean.

[BenLurkin]

Admiral Ping Koh

[DCBryan1]

Type 053C PRN:

USS Decatur

[BlueLancer]

Sounds like the old "chicken games" between the 6th Fleet and the 5th Eskadra ...

[shotgun]

Time to make a call to the “silent service” and disappear the ChiCom destroyer

[warsaw44]

For anyone in the know: would the us vessel be at battle stations with such a provocative act by the Chinese?

[RinaseaofDs]

Yes. GQ would be set. They may decide to set a condition on it, but probably not.

Done right, the collision alarm would have been triggered, which would have meant the repair lockers would have been manned.

[PIF]

The Type 052D destroyer (NATO code name Luyang III class, or Kunming class:


Processing systems:
H/LJG-346A multifunction active phased array radar
Anti-stealth H/LJQ-517B radar with Yagi antenna
H/LJQ-364 low altitude and surface search radar
H/LJQ-366 over-the-horizon surface search & targeting radar
H/LJP-349 fire control radar for close-in weapon systems
H/LJP-344A phased array fire control radar for main gun
H/SJD-9 hull mounted active/passive sonar
H/SJG-206 towed array sonar
ESS-1 variable depth sonar

Armament:
1 × H/PJ-45A 130mm dual purpose gun
64 VLS
CY-5 series ASW missiles
CJ-10 LACM
YJ-18 or YJ-83 anti-ship missiles
HHQ-9 series long range SAM
2 × 30 mm remote controlled gun
1 × H/PJ-12 CIWS or H/PJ-11 CIWS
1 × HHQ-10 short range SAM in 24-cell launcher
6 torpedo tubes
4 × 18-tube decoy rocket launcher

Hull number 170 is a Luyang Class II / Type 052C
The Class III is also called a carrier killer.

[butlerweave]

The only way the Chinese can destroy anything is with a Kamikaze move

[WMarshal]

If the ChiComs want to play are ramming the it is high time to take the USS Missouri out of retirement as it has 12 inch thick belt armor and would go through their ships like toilet paper.

[Fred Hayek]

I was thinking the same thing. There was a good amount of hard contact in the East Med and Black Sea with the Soviet Navy.

There is a video on YouTube of a Krivak class frigate making hard contact while the loudspeakers are blasting what sounds like a Russian version of the Beatles Back in the SSSR.

[Mariner]

45 meters for a ship at sea is CLOSE.

[outofsalt]

How much of that technology did they get from SpyFi and the Clintons?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

A little bit of ‘tickling the dragon’s tail’?

[GingisK]

It is refreshing to have one our ships change course for a change.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Are the fuel systems on the Missouri intact?

Note the BBs are in storage more or less and there is a now an American submarine featuring the name Missouri.