Posted on 10/22/2021 6:23:20 PM PDT by Half_Retired
Agroup of 10 Chinese and Russian naval vessels is conducting a joint patrol along a route that increasingly suggests it might take them all the way around Japan's Home Islands. Even if none of these ships ultimately sail a full loop around the Japanese archipelago, this operation is still a significant display of the ability of these two navies to work together. This all follows a number of major maritime exercises in the Pacific involving the U.S. Navy and its allies and partners — including Japan — this year, as well as multiple instances in which Chinese and Russian naval forces have separately operated unusually close to American territory.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced today that it had monitored the Chinese and Russian ships passing west between Smith Island and the island of Torishima, an area situated some 300 miles south of the Home Island of Honshu. The vessels first entered the Pacific Ocean, traveling east through the Tsugaru Strait that separates Honshu and the Home Island of Hokkaido to the north, on Oct. 18, 2021.
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Thank you, Brandon!
I don’t think the Japanese Navy has anything to fear from Russian naval forces. The Chinese however can overwhelm with numbers....
Would be a shame if a tsunami sunk them all.
Wonder if the Japanese have already nuked up and are just keeping it secret.
Russia has been making rapid naval improvements of their own, and are the 3rd largest navy in amount of ships behind China and the US.
It only makes common sense for the Japanese and South Koreans to develop their own independent nuclear deterrent. I would not take the risk of doing anything that could be construed as moving towards developing a nuclear arsenal if I were Taiwan though. That provocation would be immediately met by an invasion. The Pax Americana will be impossible to replicate. We won’t like the Chinese version.
"Chinese" pilots would lapse into Russian when things got hot.
10 ships is an Armada?
Armada is a synonym of fleet. A US Navy fleet is 50-60 ships.
Yes, or those pesky old 1940s mines still floating just where the Chicoms are sailing.
I’d even settle for a good old fashioned Godzilla attack.
Chinks best beware of the Devine Wind.
Remember that Japanese land based aircraft is within striking distance to any of those ships.
I'd say the Japs have the advantage if shooting starts.
And, I'd also bet that the Japanese only have to put the parts together to have a nuke.
Kind of dumb to provoke the Japanese into militarism. What could possibly go wrong?
Japanese targets, or sitting ducks?
That's why you watch what they do not what they say.
Russia and China calling a truce while the US is crippled does not seem unreasonable.
Since they did in fact sail together in a show of force they're not necessarily that inscrutable.
One last observation: When the Japanese want to do something it gets done. ;-)
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