The US Navy, just one blunder after another!
I think this is an old, recycled story that keeps popping up. I think I have seen it a dozen times in the last year. It originally happened in 2005 or 2007 sometime.
The Chinese are going to try something.
A couple of decades ago China was a backward, isolated society. We’ve been building up the greatest potential enemy in our history by suicidal trade policies. The Chinese have bought enough of our corrupt politicians in both parties (not just the Clintons) that this policy will not change. Only Duncan Hunter seems to care about this. Internationalists or global-trade freaks like Giuliani or Romney certainly don’t.
Dielsel electrics are extemely quiet and can do a lot of damage in coastal waters. That’s not news.
What can you do though? We aren’t at war with China, so we can’t just sink their sub for getting too close, right?
According to senior Nato officials the incident caused consternation in the U.S. Navy.
I'm betting THAT is an understatement of great proportion.
Somebody better get their head out of their rear-end. Certainly, the residual effects of the Scumbag Administration left long-term damage to the military, but Bush has been in for seven years now. Clearly we need to upgrade certain technologies.
Seems I recall a few tech secrets going to the chi-coms for campaign cash during the Clinton Administration. Nah ... couldn’t be.
We knew to the minute when the rice was loaded on that sub for the crew and every minute after that. The only way to even do any damage would be if they detonated a multi megaton nuke while it was aboard.
After all the so called useless technology the 1st Clinton sold to Chian, wonder what the 2nd Clinton would do?
Perhaps this Chinese submaraine was allowed surface with the knowledge of the U.S.A. Navy.
I think so.
This floating Chinese turd could have been sent to the latrine of hell, at the command of the U.S.A.
Welcome to the new millenium, America...
Chinese sub? I wouldn't worry about it. It'll be recalled sooner or later.
counter intel anyone? That would be my ploy if I were Navy Brass....let them think we didn’t know they ere there.
Old story. Didn’t happen the way it’s portrayed. If people want to use it as a scare tactic to increase funding for our own submarine force, though, I’m all for it.
For modern navies, there is no ship more enviable than the aircraft carrier, eh? No ship is a more tempting target to the modern submarine, either. A recent post here described how a South African submarine “sank” every NATO ship involved in an exercise off the Cape. (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891291/posts)
Today’s best torpedos are capable of triple-digit speeds while completely submerged, and many submarines are capable of firing some version of guided or cruise missile. Today’s aircraft carriers may be useful for anti-insurgent force projection in an imbalanced, suppressive way, but in matched naval conflict, the carriers will probably be crippled, or even underwater, fairly quickly.
We were tracking this sub with acoustical techniques and satellite imagery. Remember when we recovered a Soviet Submarine that had sunk in the Pacific. We knew where it was and used a CIA built deep water recovery ship to pull that sub out of 16,000 feet of water.
Of course the last paragraph contains classified material so now I have to shoot you. Please come to DFW and I'll only be to glad to maintain this classified material until the next doofus posts this type of material.
Quae Cum Ita Sunt!
How recent is this incident? The one last spring?