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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on March 09, 2009, 01:14:51 PM
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The Pentagon today protested what it called harassment and aggressive shadowing of a U.S. Navy ocean surveillance ship by five Chinese vessels in international waters off the South China Sea on Sunday, warning such behavior could lead to collisions or the loss of life.
During the incident, the Chinese vessels "surrounded" the U.S.N.S. Impeccable and closed within 50 feet, with Chinese crew members "waving Chinese flags and telling Impeccable to leave the area," according to a Pentagon statement.
Impeccable sprayed fire hoses at one of the vessels in self-protection, but the Chinese crewmembers stripped to their underwear and the ship "continued closing to within 25 feet," the Pentagon said.
At that point, the Impeccable used a bridge-to-bridge radio to communicate it was leaving the area, but two of the Chinese vessels stopped directly in the path of the U.S. ship, forcing it to conduct an emergency stop.
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing lodged a formal protest over the incident with China's Foreign Ministry during the weekend. Today senior Defense Department officials met with a Chinese defense attaché at the Pentagon to reiterate the protest, according to a defense official.
More at the Link (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/09/AR2009030900956.html?hpid=moreheadlineshttp://)
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More testing of Obama's resolve. Or lack thereof.
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I'm sure that 0Bama will apologize with all due haste. After all, he did appoint a person who thought the Chinese did too little in Tiananmen Square.
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the Impeccable class (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/tagos-23.htm) seems to be completely unarmed.
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As always...it's our fault:
China says U.S. naval ship was breaking law: report
BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused a U.S. naval vessel of conducting illegal surveying off southern Hainan island, a Hong Kong TV website reported on Tuesday, after the Pentagon said Chinese ships had harassed the vessel in international waters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSPEK9458120090310?sp=true
That's the same island BTW...where one of our surveillance planes had to make an emergency landing after "aggressive maneuvering" by a couple of ChiCom J-5 fighters.
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What's Obamas' plan? ...fling boogers at'em?
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the Impeccable class (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/tagos-23.htm) seems to be completely unarmed.
I'm pretty sure it'll keep small arms aboard for defense, but for crew served weapons, yeah it's unarmed.
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Funny they wont **** with a destroyer or cruiser. Pussies :bird:
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I'm pretty sure it'll keep small arms aboard for defense, but for crew served weapons, yeah it's unarmed.
I get your point, but I was trying to make an important distinction. THIS is armed: :-)
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Now will the Obamassiah have the balls to send that vessel back to the same spot but with a destroyers protection? Bet those little dick chinaman wont come around then.
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EMERGENCY STOP - Two Chinese trawlers stop directly in front of the USNS Impeccable, a military sealift command ocean surveillance ship, forcing the ship to conduct an emergency "all stop" in order to avoid collision in international waters in the South China Sea, March 8, 2009. The trawlers came within 25 feet of Impeccable, which was unarmed. U.S. Navy photo
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GRAPPLE HOOK - A crewmember on a Chinese trawler uses a grapple hook in an apparent attempt to snag the towed acoustic array of the USNS Impeccable, a military sealift command ocean surveillance ship, in the South China Sea, March 8, 2009. Impeccable was conducting routine survey operations in international waters 75 miles south of Hainan Island when the Chinese vessels approached it. U.S. Navy photo