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Chinese Seize U.S. Navy Underwater Drone

Doc

Bottoms Up
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Just 50 miles from Subic Bay. Damn. Not even close to China's waters.


Chinese Seize U.S. Navy Underwater Drone in South China Sea
December 17, 2016

By Terri Moon Cronk

The Defense Department has called upon China to immediately return an unmanned underwater vehicle that it unlawfully seized yesterday in the South China Sea, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement today.

Earlier, Pentagon press operations director Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters that a Chinese Navy Dalang-III class

submarine rescue vessel launched a small boat and retrieved the UUV as the oceanographic survey ship USNS Bowditch was attempting to retrieve it and a second UUV in the South China Sea.

The incident occurred in international waters about 50 nautical miles northwest of Subic Bay Naval Air Station in the Philippines, Davis told reporters.

Calling for International Law Compliance

“The UUV is a sovereign immune vessel of the United States. We call upon China to return our UUV immediately and to comply with all of its obligations under international law,” Cook said.

Bridge-to-bridge communications took place between the Bowditch and Chinese ships, but demands to have the UUV returned were ignored, Davis said.

sound speed — were conducting routine operations in accordance with international law,” Cook said.

Chinese Ignored Calls to Return UUV

Davis said the Chinese ignored repeated U.S. calls for them to return the U.S. property.

“As [the Chinese ship] went sailing off into distance, [it] said, ‘We are returning to normal operations,’” Davis said.

“We need to find out what the Chinese have to say about it,” he said. “It’s certainly not something we consider to be commensurate with their level as a professional military.”

Davis said the entire incident occurred within a 500-yard area.

“It is ours. It is clearly marked; we’d like to have it back and [would] like this to never happen again,” he said.

https://www.sofmag.com/chinese-seize-u-s-navy-underwater-drone-in-south-china-sea/
 

mla2ofus

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If it has classified components in it it should be fitted with a remote controlled self destruct mechanism in it. Either explosive or white phosphorous!!
Mike
 

MrLiberty

Bronze Member
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Screw the explosive device, we should have blown that god damn chinese ship out of the water. The chinese need to be taken down a notch or two and humiliated, hopefully Trump will not be the panty waist that obama has been. :soapbox:
 

mla2ofus

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But how do you explain how something you've stolen detonates aboard your ship or self ignites with white phosphourus or thermite??
Mike
 

300 H and H

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Trump is going to have to control some of his "tweets". This is what we are seeing in the news about it.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/...-china-keep-seized-underwater-drone-1.3208219

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Ya, and a left wing Democrat wrote the article to. Trump will tweet because he can leave the media out of his discussion with the American people, instead of running everything through the left wing media "filter" of bull crap they weave..

I don't blame him a bit. China is testing the waters and knows Obama will do nothing. China is a theif, and the hacking of our military and manufacturing computers stealing out secrets is the real problem, and the Democrats have done nothing about that. But of course now they are all piling on Trump once again. :glare:

Regards, Kirk
 

tiredretired

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I say we find a Chinese ship somewhere in the world and send the Navy SEALS to board the ship and take something off the ship of equal value. Tit for f***ing tat. When they return and drone and apologize for it, they get their shit back.

The Chinks only understand one thing and it sure as hell is not kindness.
 

tiredretired

The Old Salt
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Trump says Good Morning and the left wing commie media twists it around to something terrible to make him look bad. He has no choice but to Tweet. Personally I hate Twitter and have never used the damn thing, but I can understand why he feels the need for it.
 

waybomb

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They may as well keep it. They've analyzed it and know what it is.
Now we need a Chinese navy shop to have a mysterious unexplained hull breach.
 
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