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WashTimes: China sub secretly stalked U.S. fleet (surprisingly within firing range)
Washington Times ^ | Washington Times

Posted on 11/12/2006 10:23:21 PM PST by quesney

By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES November 13, 2006

The USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier The USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier (AFP/Getty Images)

A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected, The Washington Times has learned.

The surprise encounter highlights China's continuing efforts to prepare for a future conflict with the U.S., despite Pentagon efforts to try to boost relations with Beijing's communist-ruled military.

The submarine encounter with the USS Kitty Hawk and its accompanying warships also is an embarrassment to the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, Adm. William J. Fallon, who is engaged in an ambitious military exchange program with China aimed at improving relations between the two nations' militaries.

Disclosure of the incident comes as Adm. Gary Roughead, commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, is making his first visit to China.

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(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aircraftcarrier; chicoms; china; kittyhawk; russia; sneakattacks; submarine; usskittyhawk
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To: wodinoneeye

I hope you are right, but doubt it!


41 posted on 11/13/2006 4:16:24 AM PST by ItisaReligionofPeace (lookw)
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To: quesney
Different countries have been able to get subs around carriers when a carrier and it's battle group are not at a heightened alert status.

During a heightened alert status the little egg roll sub would have to get by 2 LA class attack subs and a host of other ASW assets, looking for it.
42 posted on 11/13/2006 4:19:06 AM PST by ryan71 (You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
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To: wodinoneeye
Its likely we very well knew where the submarine was and did not want to TIP them off to the fact.

That's the way I would play it. Make them think there're invisible, fat dumb and happy.

43 posted on 11/13/2006 4:19:22 AM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: WoofDog123

#2 is classified and you are posting it? BTW, I don't know what kind of secret this is, I've always assumed there were at least 2 subs in every group.


44 posted on 11/13/2006 4:21:21 AM PST by ItisaReligionofPeace (lookw)
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To: quesney

"Why are we doing this?" - Well, I think Clinton set a new precedent in shoveling our nuclear secrets out the back door faster than they could be brought in the front door by our scientists and researchers, in the interest of campaign dollars, his Nobel Peace prize, and, most importantly, his legacy.


45 posted on 11/13/2006 4:23:44 AM PST by Twinkie (GET BUSY, NANCY . . AL QAEDA IS EXPECTING A LOT FROM YOU!!)
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To: TexasTransplant
...I want to know why CNN, Durbin, Rockefeller, Reid and Hillary Clinton feel that we need to feed them (China) any and all information necessary to make them feel "EQUAL" to us. It is the Libs entire PLAN for self defense. If China FEELS EQUAL to us they will no do anything, and leave us alone. ...

You're spot on.

Psychologists have a name for that behaviour, I don't recall what it is. Kind of like the "Stockholm Syndrome" except this is when hostage victims will rat out the stronger hostages that are planning escape, all in order to curry favor with their captors and try to keep the captors from killing them.

46 posted on 11/13/2006 4:25:33 AM PST by FReepaholic (If ignorance ain't bliss, I don't know what is.)
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To: quesney

Getting the feeling that Gertz sees a Chinaman under every bed. Couldn't be about selling his book, now could it?


47 posted on 11/13/2006 4:29:00 AM PST by OldFriend (Run and Hide, Tax and Spend for the next two years. Everyone happy?)
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To: ozzymandus
If the sub had been detected, what could we have done about it? Obviously, not much.

If they were detected (likely) you wouldn't want to tell them what you heard, especially if they were noisy.

Record noise traces for later comparison and training simulations as well.

Also, see how well they detected (or seemed to detect) you.

48 posted on 11/13/2006 4:30:05 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: oyez

I was never sure whether or not the S-3's shortcomings were platform related or tactical. More often than not they went up without an operational FLIR or radar, rendering them pretty much useless for anything but tanking up lawn darts. SH-60Fs and P-3Cs have always been much more effective in the ASW role.


49 posted on 11/13/2006 4:30:39 AM PST by Doohickey (I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
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To: wodinoneeye

I highly doubt that.


50 posted on 11/13/2006 4:31:14 AM PST by NucSubs (Islam delenda est.)
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To: Strategerist

:-)

Excellent. Bravo sir.


51 posted on 11/13/2006 4:34:17 AM PST by NucSubs (Islam delenda est.)
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To: Vanders9

Interesting. I'm sure they're watching our actions in Iraq with keen interest.


52 posted on 11/13/2006 4:34:53 AM PST by ItsForTheChildren
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To: ItisaReligionofPeace; WoofDog123

Actually you're both wrong, which is good.


53 posted on 11/13/2006 4:38:45 AM PST by Doohickey (I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
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To: quesney
Bush has been held hostage by Chinese who own $1 trillion of US govt debt...

Pelosi was warned last week by a Chinese official not to enact trade barriers...

We are now checkmated by our dependence on cheap Chinese goods.


BUMP

54 posted on 11/13/2006 4:42:55 AM PST by capitalist229 (Get Democrats out of our pockets and Republicans out of our bedrooms.)
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To: quesney
Disclosure of the incident comes as Adm. Gary Roughead, commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, is making his first visit to China.

It seems to me that our intent is to use this event to our advantage.

55 posted on 11/13/2006 4:46:56 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: oyez

Say what?

Then what are we using for carrier-based fixed-wing ASW?

That sounds incredibly foolish.


56 posted on 11/13/2006 4:49:36 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: raygun

I read that in a recent wargame involving a Swedish diesel sub, the Swedish sub managed to sink the Reagan and a hunter killer nuke.


57 posted on 11/13/2006 4:52:28 AM PST by Tribune7
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To: dcrider182

Prange's tome is the best on the subject. To digest it is to know the absurdity of the conspiracy theorists... and to realize that the nation was TRULY... asleep. You might also like to read his book on Midway.


58 posted on 11/13/2006 4:54:44 AM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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To: quesney

We are "fair and balanced" dont cha know?


59 posted on 11/13/2006 4:54:53 AM PST by x_plus_one (Franklin Graham: "Allah is not the God of Moses. Allah had no son")
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To: Thrownatbirth

>>one thing's for sure - you'll never hear the whole story.

That's the one statement about this that is indubitably true, and worth saying again.


60 posted on 11/13/2006 4:54:54 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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