Posted on 06/15/2020 1:37:05 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
The deployment of three 100,000-ton US Navy aircraft carriers to the Pacific Ocean for the first time in years has drawn swift reaction from China, with state-sponsored media saying Beijing will not back down to defend its interests in the region. The USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Theodore Roosevelt are both patrolling in the western Pacific, while the USS Nimitz is in the east, according to US Navy press releases. With each vessel containing more than 60 aircraft, it represents the biggest deployment of US aircraft carriers in the Pacific since 2017 -- when tensions with North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program were at their peak. The presence of the carriers was first highlighted in an Associated Press report on Friday. "Carriers and carrier strike groups writ large are phenomenal symbols of American naval power. I really am pretty fired up that we've got three of them at the moment," Rear Adm. Stephen Koehler, director of operations at Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii, told AP. On Sunday, the Communist Party's Global Times mouthpiece said the carriers could threaten troops in the disputed South China Sea. "By massing these aircraft carriers, the US is attempting to demonstrate to the whole region and even the world that it remains the most powerful naval force, as they could enter the South China Sea and threaten Chinese troops on the Xisha and Nansha islands (Paracel and Spratly islands) as well as vessels passing through nearby waters, so the US could carry out its hegemonic politics," the Global Times report
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yup
big downside of making a carrier with conventional fuel requirements
ACHILLES HEEL
Because basically this thing is going to have a one time ‘wartime’ deployment, in the times we live in
It aint coming home, and those pilots may launch but better make sure they can get to land.
[“Massing”? Battles of Coral Sea and Midway saw “massed” carriers, within sight of each other, both sides, with hundreds of nautical miles between the two fleets]
GOOD!
That would matter if democrats in our military were more concerned about defending our county than being a PC social experiment. Pentagon brass wants Arab wars because Arabs buy 'speeches' for $5,000 a minute and they're 'grateful'...
Betcha the nba and lebrainless aren’t happy with this!
We need a good , hot ,long , war with someone right now . China will do nicely .
A poorly written sentence. The individual ships of each side could see their fellow carriers and task forces, but the opposing fleets were hundreds of miles apart.
At least that is how I interpreted that muddled mess.
Is the Enola Gay aboard one of them?
I always wondered, outside of the Boomers if aircraft carrier strike groups carried nuclear weapons on all accounts...
Within each respective fleet, American and Japanese. Which is why one flight of US dive bombers was able to sink all four Japanese carriers. They were all gathered, well, in a fleet. Probably will never happen again. All your eggs in one basket, etc.
I believe it is CNN that is not happy.
Our nation is bankrupt, in more ways than one. We cannot afford or bear a war in Asia. Let the nations there defend themselves. They have the economic might to do so.
The only way that stops is if the rest of the world stop developing intellectual property.
Yeah. And one of them is CVN 76, USS Ronald Reagan, how apropos.
Since China has it’s panties in a wad, all I have to say is “f**k ‘em, feed ‘em fish” their commies.
With all of your espionage even your military is unsure of the quality of your armed forces.
You've spent billions of dollars on toys that you have No idea how well there going to operate or whether they will even survive in combat.
So, we have covid Karens how about chicom Katos?
Kato, it is called a SHOW OF FORCE. How are you liking it so far?
They are suitably pissed to have those thousands of chicom-virus-contaminated swabbies floating near their shores?
After I typed tongue I bought I should’ve said mousy dung...
Hehehe
“Massing”? Battles of Coral Sea and Midway saw “massed” carriers,
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They are massing?
Better stop that. Separation of Catholics and State, you know.
Carriers at 50% staffing, and 6000 miles apart.
Would put it on Twitter but they're looking for a reason to stifle my account....
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