Posted on 10/08/2021 6:21:45 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
China has expressed "grave concerns" about a U.S. submarine that hit an unknown object in the South China Sea last week.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Friday that China urged the U.S. to provide details, its purpose of cruising, and whether it caused a nuclear leak or damaged the marine environment, the state-owned newspaper Global Times reported.
U.S. officials, speaking anonymously to the Associated Press, on Thursday said that an American nuclear submarine hit the object while submerged in waters in the South China Sea, injuring 11 sailors on board. The submarine remains "fully operational" the officials said, with the U.S. Navy later adding that there were no life-threatening injuries.
In a short statement on Twitter, the U.S. Pacific Fleet provided little detail on the incident, apart from that the US Connecticut struck the unknown object on October 2. It added that the incident will be investigated.
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Anybody check at the port where Chinese subs return to base for dented fenders?
If there was, would be interesting to try and match up the fender paint with the dented US Sub.
Dented fenders?
Check the Chinese sub for crap all over the deck
“We know exactly where you are”
Was there a woman at the helm? Just curious.
Maybe some kind of Chinese listening device?
Maybe a partially sunken shipping container. Thousands are lost at sea every year.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3806008/china-warship-us-uk-military-exercises/
Was the collision in an area covered by “No-fault” insurance?
The story begins with a United States Navy submarine, the USS Seawolf (SSN-21), on a mission to spy on the new Chinese nuclear missile submarine. The mission is successful until the submarine's second-in-command, the president's son Linus Clark makes a fatal error, and the submarine collides with a sonar array from a Chinese ship that is searching for them. The crew is imprisoned and tortured while the Chinese begin to strip the captured submarine for its secrets.
No telling if Linus is based on Hunter.
"Is there any another kind?"
I wouldn’t tell the Chinese anything except mind your own f’ing business the American Navy will anywhere it wants anytime it wants.
Object?
What kinda object?
How fast was it going?
Like they are concerned about the environment. We will provide as much detail as they did when they unleashed the Wuhan Virus on the world.
China has been developing an unmanned submersible vehicle that can track enemy submarines and attack them with torpedoes
"F... You!.....That's my details!"
Great poster.
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