Posted on 04/24/2017 8:47:07 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Report: Nuclear-powered USS Michigan to arrive in South Korea
April 24 (UPI) -- A nuclear-powered U.S. submarine is to arrive at the South Korean port city of Busan on Tuesday, the same day North Korea is expected to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Army.
The USS Michigan, the second Ohio-class nuclear-powered guided missile submarine in the U.S. Navy, is to make a visit to South Korea to send a strong message of warning to Pyongyang, South Korean newspaper Donga Ilbo reported Monday.
The U.S. supercarrier Carl Vinson is also expected to arrive near the peninsula this week, a move that is being met with threats from North Korea.
"Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a single strike," the Rodong Sinmun stated in an editorial.
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Especially "boomers." Talk about a show of force.
SSGNs don’t want to be anywhere near the Norks subs. I assume (and hope) that some attack boats are in the neighborhood.
The trick is not launching the missiles, it is having appropriate targets. North Korea is a regimented police state, which makes HUMIT hard and forces reliance on SIGINT and satellites, which can be fooled.
Kim the Youngest is not still atop NK because he is stupid. He is a shrewd opponent. An SSGN presence is necessary, but does not guarantee anything.
The Michigan is a guided missile sub.
SSGNs
Wouldn’t want a carrier force going into an area without fast attacks in the area.
SSGNs are not bound by patrol schedules...they can and do go anywhere anytime. Crew swaps can and do take place anywhere also...anywhere the oncoming crew can be flown.
My bet is on the annual May Day parade in Pyong Yang...
Take out a couple thousand goose-steppers and the Kim family too.
What the hell is the deal with that stupid looking goose stepping?
“My bet is on the annual May Day parade in Pyong Yang...
Take out a couple thousand goose-steppers and the Kim family too!”
The parade on 1 May would be probably as big as their one held on 15 April 2017.
https://www.nknews.org/gallery/north-koreas-april-15-military-parade-in-pictures/
It makes the 5 foot tall, 100 pound tuffies look bigger...
Why do they preface the Ship Names as Nuclear Powered?
Seems a bit curious to me. What’s the point?
Nonsense!
Maybe they could use a good Subway sandwich...
The nukes can stay down for as long as they have food.
No time having to come up to “breath” or refuel.
Can stay down for months at a time.
Very quiet.
They can go to an area and just loiter for a few months and come home.
If nobody ever happens to detect them, nobody ever knows where they are, or where they have been, until they pop up at a port somewhere.
This SSGN is not equipped with SLBMs.
It’s a cruise missile boat. 158 of them.
To the leftist, “Nuclear” == “Bad”, particularly when owned by the USA.
A Mexican standoff in korea.
“I believe we have four of them: Ohio, Michigan, Florida, and Georgia”
All of them critical to Trumps Victory. Love it.
NK’s rustbucket submarines aren’t supposed to be used *for* combat...instead, they exist to be used as *bait*.
NK has an underwater nuclear mine. Suicide detonated by one of their rust buckets when a U.S. sub is “close enough.”
Is it common for our subs to publicly surface when away from U.S. shores? I am curious to know.
>>Is it common for our subs to publicly surface when away from U.S. shores? I am curious to know.
We live in a unique time. It isn’t the Cold War anymore. The enemy isn’t rational like we had in the late 20th century. Our enemies today are lunatics with death wishes. Hinting at a threat is a sign of weakness to them. You have to show the threat and maybe even use it just to get their attention.
But even in the Cold War, I’ve run on the surface for many reasons: freedom of navigation exercises, showing the flag in a friendly port, safe transit through space already occupied by another submerged boat.
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