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Amphibious Assault Ship USS America Steaming Into South China Sea Amid Fresh Provocation By China
https://www.ibtimes.com/ ^ | 04/21/20 AT 2:31 AM | By Brittany Vincent

Posted on 04/21/2020 7:33:06 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

KEY POINTS USS America is steaming into the disputed waters where a Chinese survey ship is operating The U.S. had previously demanded that China stop its "bullying behavior" China has increase maritime activities in disputed waters amid coronavirus pandemic

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KEYWORDS: 201912; 202003; ccp; china; cobragold; cobragold2020; freedomoftheseas; gatorfleet; internationalwaters; islandgrabbing; japan; southchinasea; surveyingship; surveyship; thailand; ussamerica; wwiii
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To: Captain Walker

Thanks for letting me know.


21 posted on 04/21/2020 8:10:58 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: RomanSoldier19

USS America has F-35s aboard.

https://news.yahoo.com/navy-prepared-uss-america-f-213000439.html

And there’s a Cruiser in company.

Not much China can do about it.


22 posted on 04/21/2020 8:16:40 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: HighSierra5
You're welcome, except I have to add a qualifier. (I'm really showing my age here...)

The Tarawa-class LHAs had well decks; the America-class LHAs ditched the well deck to focus more on their aviation role.

(I had incorrectly assumed that the LHA designation indicated a well deck regardless of the class; I was wrong here.)

23 posted on 04/21/2020 8:16:48 PM PDT by Captain Walker
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To: Equine1952

It would be beyond silly for anybody to take this bait, so we win either way.


24 posted on 04/21/2020 8:16:58 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Secret Agent Man

The one-child-policy and it’s unintended social consequences will have an impact of the nature of the individual Chinese soldier.
Don’t know if it will make him a better or weaker warrior. We’ll see.


25 posted on 04/21/2020 8:17:45 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: GreyHoundSailor

It’s all show and hopes of no tell at this point. The crap was already in the fan When Halsey got the “The world wonders” message. If this gets to that level the breaks are off.


26 posted on 04/21/2020 8:22:08 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: atc23

“It’s not a birdfarm?

I thought they were called a HORNETS’ NEST.


27 posted on 04/21/2020 8:22:47 PM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: RomanSoldier19

Hope it has an SSN escort.


28 posted on 04/21/2020 8:23:27 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

We’re already at war. Covid was the first strike....


29 posted on 04/21/2020 8:25:38 PM PDT by RedMominBlueState
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To: RedMominBlueState

We’ve been at war with China since Chaing Kai-shek and the free Chinese fled to Taiwan. They knew it, we ignored it and Clinton bohica’d to it. Trump knows it. Time shitbirds here in the USA wake up to it. We’re still fighting the Cold War with Russia and a warmer one with China. The whuflu ain’t nothing if this goes hot.


30 posted on 04/21/2020 8:36:15 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: Honest Nigerian
Why the fancy name?

1600 Marines and a flock of Ospreys. Just enough fighters for local air defense.

31 posted on 04/21/2020 8:38:16 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: atc23

No hovercraft. They took out the well deck to make more room for the larger fighters and the Ospreys.


32 posted on 04/21/2020 8:40:49 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: RomanSoldier19

Steaming.

Bears closer scrutiny.


33 posted on 04/21/2020 8:47:46 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Captain Walker
The Iwo Jima was an LPH (LPH-2, to be exact); the LPHs didn’t have well decks. (The LPHs had also been decommissioned back in the 90s.)

You are correct about the former USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2), a ship that I knew very well decades ago. But you might not realize a new Wasp-class USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) was commissioned in 2001. She's the seventh of eight Wasp-class Landing Helicopter Dock amphibious warfare vessels that are essentially small aircraft carriers with flooding well decks for amphibious landing craft in addition to helicopters and F-35 jets.

34 posted on 04/21/2020 8:50:50 PM PDT by Always A Marine ("When you strike at a king, you must kill him" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: RomanSoldier19; Honest Nigerian; krogers58; Always A Marine; Luker; Grimmy; Mariner; Gator113
I can remember when the only concerns for steaming through the South China Sea were those enforced by the two carriers on Yankee Station. There the International Rules of the Road did not apply. As far as the admiral was concerned his ships did whatever they wanted to whenever they wanted to, and you stayed the hell out of the way. On all but one occasion our LST (Westchester County) went around. On that occasion we had just left an Amphibious Ready Group lead by the Iwo Jima

Before I came onboard (1970) there was a destroyer squadron homeported in Taipei. When is closed every ship traveling to and from Vietnam went through the Taiwan Straits.

35 posted on 04/21/2020 9:26:43 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Honest Nigerian

Amphibious Assault Ship?
Looks like an Aircraft Carrier to me.
Why the fancy name?

********

It’s standard issue duty is part of a USMC MEU.

Here’s some info on that.

SIX HOURS: Forward Deployed Marine Expeditionary Units

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciLST5zeMWE&list=PLD4743007E011AD13

7 vids already in play order. None more than 5 minutes long. The problem they’re working up in the vids is to put a company of USMC infantry plus support elements ashore for a raid on a target. it’s one of the final test exercises before a MEU goes on float.

This will give you an idea of what’s in a MEU:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_expeditionary_unit

The wiki link also has a list of the MEUs and their home units and areas of responsibility.

Units rotate in and out of the MEU structures. There’s a MEU afloat, units working up and training up to replace those units in that MEU when that float is done.

The MEUs are permanent. The units that make up the MEU change every float.

The units that make up the MEUs come from the general USMC unit rosters of the bases from which the MEUs are attached.


36 posted on 04/21/2020 9:42:38 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Amphibious Assault Ship USS America Arrives In Japan
By: Ben Werner
December 6, 2019 4:11 PM

https://news.usni.org/2019/12/06/amphibious-assault-ship-uss-america-arrives-in-japan#more-71799


37 posted on 04/21/2020 9:48:51 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: wgmalabama

If the USS America is set up as a “Harrier Carrier” (ironic term since those are F-35B Lightening IIs in the picture), all the helicopters (except some UH-1s for SAR) are sent ashore and additional F-35 are flown aboard to create an embarked fighter squadron of 18-22(?) aircraft (including spares).

That’s about 1/4th the complement of a super carrier like the T Roosevelt.

However...no catapults means no takeoffs at full ammo and fuel load. In addition, aviation ordnance magazine capacity, although much better in the America than its predecessors, is limited. Air assault and close air support operations burn through aviation ordnance stores at considerable rates. That’s where the large, numerous, and multideck aviation magazines of the super carriers cannot be matched.


38 posted on 04/21/2020 9:52:19 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: Captain Rhino
However...no catapults means no takeoffs at full ammo and fuel load.

Can the MV-22 Osprey tanker top off the fighters once they are airborne?   I thought that was something they had in the works a few years ago.

39 posted on 04/21/2020 10:17:49 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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40 posted on 04/21/2020 10:29:28 PM PDT by bitt (Hell hath no fury like a scorned patriot.)
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