Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise 916
One NATO figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik." American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast USS Kitty Hawk. By the time it surfaced, the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine had sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier. The incident caused consternation in the US Navy, which had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication.
Simple solution: (Score:5, Funny)
emblazoned on the conning tower (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah Coincidence (Score:2, Funny)
Can you say industrial esponiage?
It also led to tense diplomatic exchanges, with shaken American diplomats demanding to know why the submarine was "shadowing" the U.S. fleet while Beijing pleaded ignorance and dismissed the affair as coincidence.
Yeah that's totally plausible! I mean it's not like the Pacific is this massive body of water that covers a third of the Earth.
and flashing on the USN radar screens (Score:3, Funny)
Quite an achievement (Score:5, Funny)
No Surprise. (Score:3, Funny)
There are two kinds of seagoing vessels: submarines and targets.
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BMO
Re:Carriers, so big, so beautiful, so dead (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What better way than this... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Quite an achievement (Score:5, Funny)
SEEMS THERE ARE A FEW CHINKS IN NATIONAL SECURITY (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why? (Score:3, Funny)
To make another killer sub movie starring [a chinese] Sean Connery! Duh!
Re:The Clinton Legacy (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The danger of diesels (Score:3, Funny)
For a moment there I thought you wrote Google's supercavitating torpedo. Gave me a terrible fright.
don't worry though (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There are two kinds of ships.... (Score:2, Funny)
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Bah! I'm tired of all the naysayers! We had plenty of good--dare I say great--reasons to invade Iraq. The problem with our strategy was that no good reason was also true.
Re:The danger of diesels (Score:2, Funny)
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Okay, let's play through this leg of the game:
There is no plausible deniability when it comes to something like this. Meesh.
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Just...just kill me now...
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Re:Why do the Chinese give away this capability? (Score:5, Funny)
An alternative theory on commander's decision to give it up:
Non-encrypted depeche received aboard carrier on SLF channel:
PLEASE STOP YOUR ENGINES STOP WE ARE HOOKED ON YOUR ANCHOR STOP THANKS MATE STOP YOURS TRULY YURI END
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LOL!11! Subz are cule. Don't liek peopel much.
Re:What's that aphorism? (Score:5, Funny)