Posted on 03/09/2012 9:11:02 PM PST by U-238
The Russians liked the concept a lot. They had a long deployment of large turboprop seaplanes for ASW work in particular, but also SAR and other missions. I think they belonged for the most part to the Northern Fleet.
They could deploy sonobuoys or dipping sonar as wanted, and could float silent, undetected, for long periods while listening to both sonobuoys and VDS.
Like Palau and Peleliu? Both close to the Philippine Archipelago .... we'd do well to get back into Clark, frankly. I don't know what Filipino politics looks like these days, but we were being extorted while we were there for a while.
Someplace like Palawan, Sarawak, or Brunei would give us a front-row seat on the emerging resources/mare clausum claims of the Chinese to the whole South China Sea and its seabed.
“Someplace like Palawan, Sarawak, or Brunei would give us a front-row seat on the emerging resources/mare clausum claims of the Chinese to the whole South China Sea and its seabed.”
No kidding! Obama and company have virtually surrendered the South China Sea and our allies there. I am very concerned about the potential for a regional conflict.
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