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US Warship Sails Within 'Striking Distance' Of North Korea As Donald Trump Prepares 'Show Of Force'
The Sun ^ | April 29, 2017 | By Patrick Knox

Posted on 04/29/2017 4:00:43 AM PDT by Strategy

A HUGE US Navy super-carrier is gearing up for war off the coast of North Korea after Kim Jong-un's third test fire flop this month.

USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group arrived in waters near the Korean peninsula, where it will join the USS Michigan, a guided missile submarine that docked in South Korea on Tuesday.

The Nimitz-class U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson sailing towards the Korean coast this morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: first100days; japan; korea; northkorea; shipmovement; trump; trumpasia; usnavy; usscarlvinson
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To: redcatcherb412

“Has President Trump obtained the approval of the 9th circus court clown judges ? If not, they’ll probably issue a restraining order in the nork butterballs name to keep at least 100 yards away.”

Perfect!


41 posted on 04/29/2017 7:43:54 AM PDT by stillfree? (Don't let illegals turn your state into California.)
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To: Jimmy The Snake

Destrucus Inter Ruptus....

Too long but you get the intent... :):)


42 posted on 04/29/2017 7:44:59 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Comment Not Approved

Yeah, Aegis isn’t there just for laughs. The amount of missile defense firepower already in the theater is huge, and it’s only going to grow when the Ronald Reagan and Nimitz groups get there.

Your son has my thanks for his service.


43 posted on 04/29/2017 7:46:34 AM PDT by OldGuard1
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To: All

I would suggest if your know anything to keep it to yourself. General comments are okay.


44 posted on 04/29/2017 7:46:52 AM PDT by mulder1 ("It is not the critic that matters" "Loose lips sink ships.")
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To: Strategy

But the NK military is so scary, while their “ICBMs” continue to rain debris all over Japan.


45 posted on 04/29/2017 7:48:57 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: CondorFlight

You have quite the point there. Think about having ships like the USS Ass-Kicker, or the USS Can-o-Whoop Ass. You DO have to Americanized the names s bit, you know. :>)


46 posted on 04/29/2017 7:50:14 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: VietVet876

Reagan did the same. Makes me smile.


47 posted on 04/29/2017 7:53:12 AM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: PJBankard

I would love to see them build a few new ones, instead of just bringing out a mothballed one. Could you imagine a modern nuclear powered battleship, with updated targeting systems, 16-inch guns, and missile systems. It would be a floating ship of death.
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Being ex-Navy I’ve often thought of these things. I can’t help but see naval military might eventually, maybe quickly, becoming obsolete, if not extinct. With modern technology capable of raining nuclear havoc from space, or abilities to knock out all electronics of the target, ships on the water are no more than a giant shooting gallery. A nuclear-tipped ASROC type weapon fired from a long distance, and with stealth technology could be the underwater equivalent of a cruise missile, and at much less expense than the target it just sank.

Building more powerful ships with more and more technology at enormous expense will eventually, if nothing else, price itself out of existence. Your “Ship of Death” would be great for show and bragging rights, but I fear it would soon be merely another multi-billion dollar pile of rusting junk joining many others on Iron Bottom Sound. Future warfare may be almost unrecognizable to veterans of the past.


48 posted on 04/29/2017 8:00:30 AM PDT by Gideon300
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To: South Dakota

49 posted on 04/29/2017 8:04:47 AM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left - Ecc 10:2)
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To: BlueLancer

“Well, without looking it up, I would assume that this was a corvette in the FLOWER class. “

Correct! This class also included HMS Snowflake.


50 posted on 04/29/2017 8:08:46 AM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: Raycpa

“I have this vision that each failed missle launch results in the execution of several engineers and scientists.”

Your vision is a nightmare for Kim’s engineers. scientists and Generals.

Each failure turns that reality into a nightmare.

Of course, we won’t tell Kim, that the CIA has infiltrated his engineers, scientists and generals with great moles. Great moles that ensure each launch attempt is another failure.


51 posted on 04/29/2017 8:11:10 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ("Fake news is just another name for slander or libel, and should be prosecuted."!!!)
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To: CondorFlight

Like the Enterprise or Independence?


52 posted on 04/29/2017 8:14:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ("Fake news is just another name for slander or libel, and should be prosecuted."!!!)
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To: Jimmy The Snake

I think “Limp Kim” would do it.


53 posted on 04/29/2017 8:25:35 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: WKUHilltopper

http://www.gonavy.jp/CVLocation.html


54 posted on 04/29/2017 8:50:38 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Candor7

If China invades, you see N and S Korea being one?


55 posted on 04/29/2017 9:07:00 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Gideon300

I wonder what years and years of being told you’re a G-d in isolation of your own country does to a fat leader.


56 posted on 04/29/2017 9:12:33 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: CondorFlight

The USS Ronald Reagan would sound pretty scary to a commie


57 posted on 04/29/2017 10:07:07 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: Ciaphas Cain

The U.S. has smaller ships that can carry aircraft carrier. They are known as the America-class and Tarawa-class ships. Technically they are called amphibious assault ships, but they are capable of carrying and launching helicopters and V-STOL aircraft like the Harrier and the F-35. They are as large as France’s biggest aircraft carriers.


58 posted on 04/29/2017 10:13:16 AM PDT by Vaden (Donald Trump: making political impossibilites possible since 2015!)
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To: Raycpa
I have this vision that each failed missle launch results in the execution of several engineers and scientists.

That would explain why each launch seems to fail quicker and quicker. They certainly aren't getting very far off the launch pad.

59 posted on 04/29/2017 10:18:56 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Strategy
Any Freepers have family members stationed on any of the ships in the Pacific or off North Korea?

Thinking prayers for their safety are in order .......

60 posted on 04/29/2017 10:19:51 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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