Posted on 09/26/2022 7:26:34 PM PDT by leopud
September 26th, 2022 Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Coast Guard Cutter Kimball crew on a routine patrol in the Bering Sea encountered a People’s Republic of China Guided Missile Cruiser, Renhai CG 101, sailing approximately 75 nautical miles north of Kiska Island on September 19. According to a release from the Coast Guard, the Kimball crew later identified two more Chinese naval vessels and four Russian naval vessels, including a Russian Federation Navy destroyer, all in a single formation with the Renhai as a combined surface action group operating in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. As a result, the Kimball crew is now operating under Operation Frontier Sentinel, a Seventeenth Coast Guard District operation designed to meet presence with presence when strategic competitors operate in and around U.S. waters. The U.S Coast Guard said presence strengthens the international rules-based order and promotes the conduct of operations in a manner that follows international norms. While the surface action group was temporary in nature, and Kimball observed it disperse, the Kimball will continue to monitor activities in the U.S. EEZ to ensure the safety of U.S. vessels and international commerce in the area. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak C-130 Hercules air crew provided support to the Kimball’s Operation Frontier Sentinel activities. In September 2021, Coast Guard cutters deployed to the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean also encountered Chinese naval vessels, including a surface action group transiting approximately 50 miles off the Aleutian Island chain. “While the formation has operated in accordance with international rules and norms,” said Rear Adm. Nathan Moore, Seventeenth Coast Guard District commander, “we will meet presence-with-presence to ensure there are no disruptions to U.S. interests in the maritime environment around Alaska.” Kimball is a 418-foot legend-class national security cutter homeported in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Were the Chinese and Russians making any echo soundings? Would be a good place to hide enemy boomers???
(you are welcome)
They don’t need that many ships to establish “presence.” They had another purpose. What was it????
Yes, what was the purpose? Was it a distraction?
There could have been some USN naval presence in the form of one or more SSNs .
And so? These are international waters.
You make sense, they could of been trying to track USN subsurface vessels.
operating in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone.
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Probably a “freedom of navigation exercise”.
A very interesting if ambiguous concept. Does any nation really believe this designation is enforceable?
C 130
What support ?
Drop a life raft on them ?
Kimble Legend class cutter
Armament: 57 mm gun and Gunfire Control System,
Phalanx Close-In Weapons System,
.50 Caliber Machine Guns,
M240B 7.62 Light Machine Guns
No match for a combined surface force .
I hope there were subs there.
Just measuring water temperature and surveying globull warming. More ships = more data points.
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Sizing up US responses and surveying US Bering Sea fish stocks for visit by the Chinese fishing fleet.
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