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Omaha Steve

(99,065 posts)
Mon Jun 5, 2023, 08:38 AM Jun 2023

US releases video showing close-call in Taiwan Strait with Chinese destroyer

Source: AP

By DAVID RISING today

BANGKOK (AP) — The United States military released video Monday of what it called an “unsafe” Chinese maneuver in the Taiwan Strait on the weekend, in which a Chinese navy ship cut sharply across the path of an American destroyer, forcing the U.S. vessel to slow to avoid a collision.

The incident occurred Saturday as the American destroyer USS Chung-Hoon and Canadian frigate HMCS Montreal were conducting a so-called “freedom of navigation” transit of the strait between Taiwan and mainland China.

China claims the democratic self-governing island of Taiwan as part of its own territory, and maintains the strait is part of its exclusive economic zone, while the U.S. and its allies regularly sail through and fly over the passage to emphasize their contention that the waters are international.

During the Saturday transit, the Chinese guided-missile destroyer overtook the Chung-Hoon on its port side, then veered across its bow at a distance of some 150 yards (137 meters), according to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. The American destroyer held its course, but reduced speed to 10 knots “to avoid a collision,” the military said.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/us-china-taiwan-strait-489a45bb6df134fa09443d285b3f8669



FULL story & VIDEO at link.
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INdemo

(6,994 posts)
3. Yes I remember Russian Trawlers cutting in front of an Aircraft Carrier
Mon Jun 5, 2023, 09:45 AM
Jun 2023

(USS Independence) I was on while we were launching Aircraft in the Mediterranean Sea

captain queeg

(10,035 posts)
5. That sounds bad. Don't carriers orient themselves to launch into the wind?
Mon Jun 5, 2023, 10:14 AM
Jun 2023

Maybe with catapults it’s not as important. I also remember Russian trawlers fishing off the coast of the UK violating their territorial waters.

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
9. Yes but the trawlers cut in from of us from a distance
Mon Jun 5, 2023, 12:15 PM
Jun 2023

That was the idea, they wanted to disrupt our launches. Im sure 40 years later the Navy would handle this situation quite differently

Ray Bruns

(4,023 posts)
2. We need to bring back one or two of the Iowa class battleships and let them pull a stunt like
Mon Jun 5, 2023, 09:26 AM
Jun 2023

that with 45k tons of steel bearing down on them.

Ray Bruns

(4,023 posts)
8. Ships are not fighter planes. Even a destroyer needs quite a lot of room to maneuver.
Mon Jun 5, 2023, 10:31 AM
Jun 2023

150 yards is too close for comfort.

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