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U.S. Warns That China's Expulsion of Navy Near Disputed Islands Is a 'Serious Threat' to Sea Travel
https://www.newsweek.com/ ^
| 5/28/20
| BY TOM O'CONNOR ON
Posted on 05/30/2020 12:31:32 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: Tallguy
[Those islands would be a smoking wreck after the first salvo of Tomahawks.]
I expect these islands to become bigger. Much bigger. Maybe dozens of square miles. That’s when they become useful. Problem is expense. Of course, a guy like Xi could divert huge amounts of money towards this project. It cost Singapore a few billion dollars to add ~50 sq miles. No telling what the costs are by the Paracels, but if it’s double digit billions, Xi should have have no problem finding the money. Of course, that’s a long-term project, and not applicable for if he initiates hostilities in the near term.
http://www.nlb.gov.sg/biblioasia/2017/04/04/land-from-sand-singapores-reclamation-story/
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posted on
05/30/2020 3:06:28 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Zhang Fei
*** And risked the lives of an entire crew, in *peacetime*? In wartime, maybe, given the sensitivity of the codes. ***
An argument could be made that the pilot of the EP-3 wouldn’t have known whether there was a war, declared or not, at the moment he got rammed by that incompetent hotdog pilot.
I would concede the point that any sea ditching in a P-3 is inherently risky — particularly without flaps. You’d hit the water at an awfully high airspeed.
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posted on
05/30/2020 3:08:45 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
To: whistleduck
That aircraft was going down, and quickly. She had prop damage and the engines were literally shaking off the mounts as a result. She wouldn’t have made a ‘friendly’ airbase.
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posted on
05/30/2020 3:11:52 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
To: Tallguy
[An argument could be made that the pilot of the EP-3 wouldnt have known whether there was a war, declared or not, at the moment he got rammed by that incompetent hotdog pilot.]
In wartime, he’d have seen missile trails. The Chinese pilot’s plane would have shown up as a speck on a radar screen, not within shouting distance. This was obvious hotdogging.
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posted on
05/30/2020 3:13:23 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Psalm 73
I wish some ex-Navy FReeper would jump in and give his opinion.
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posted on
05/30/2020 3:30:00 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(Oceans and oceans of snakeoil and not a paddle.)
To: servantboy777
These countries all expect the US to side with them.
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posted on
05/30/2020 3:32:57 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(Oceans and oceans of snakeoil and not a paddle.)
To: servantboy777
Except Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan. Are they conducting freedom of navigation missions through the Spratleys?
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posted on
05/30/2020 3:56:47 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: RomanSoldier19
waiting for the Filipino Navy to step up. OK where are the sarcasm marks?
Serious question: do the Vietnamese and Filipinos have navies?
To: PGR88
>>Are they conducting freedom of navigation missions through the Spratleys?<<
Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines have had direct confrontations with the Chinese navy in defense of their territorial waters.
To: CatOwner
To: RomanSoldier19
"The news media is not posted for information they dont provide anything; we are just using it as point of conversation." That may be true for some, but a lot of posters on this thread are taking the report's words at face value. Thus my comment.
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posted on
05/30/2020 8:03:24 PM PDT
by
fidelis
(Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
To: PGR88
If we’re there, our allies will back us up, I think.
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posted on
05/30/2020 8:09:08 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: fidelis
No worries, we see daily masses can be mobilized as they have always been.
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posted on
05/30/2020 8:35:30 PM PDT
by
RomanSoldier19
(Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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