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2 US Navy warships sail through Taiwan Strait
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| Oct 22, 2018, 4:05 PM ET
| Luis Martinez
Posted on 10/22/2018 3:47:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
“USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) and USS Antietam (CG 54) conducted a routine Taiwan Strait Transit on Oct. 22, in accordance with international law,” said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, deputy spokesman, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
“The ships’ transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” he added. “The U.S. Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows.”
A similar transit by two U.S. destroyers occurred in July, the first time the Navy had carried out a mission like that in more than a year.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: strait; taiwan; usnavy
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I'd like to see the New Jersey come out of mothballs and fitted with a nuclear power plant. And then sail up and down the Taiwan straight 365 days a year.
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posted on
10/22/2018 3:47:27 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Good! About time.
Let’s hope they don’t run into each other...
(Still can’t believe those accidents last year!)
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posted on
10/22/2018 3:49:44 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(all the time)
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posted on
10/22/2018 3:50:28 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: mrsmith
One of the officers in charge of the said ships was a woman. What can you do?
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posted on
10/22/2018 3:51:52 PM PDT
by
max americana
(Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
To: max americana
One of the officers in charge of the said ships was a woman. What can you do? Which means the officers in charge of the other ones were men? What can you do?
To: BenLurkin
We still have some cruisers?
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posted on
10/22/2018 3:59:01 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We still have some cruisers?
They're built on a Spruance (destroyer) hull. But they were the first Aegis ships and they just couldn't call it a destroyer when it cost more than a billion dollars each. Nonetheless, the mission is pure escort - like a destroyers.
In contrast, they called the Zumwalt class ships "destroyers" even though their mission is much more like a traditional cruiser mission - mostly because it sounds less expensive to call them destroyers than cruisers.
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:06:47 PM PDT
by
Phlyer
To: max americana
Hey, I like Captain Runt...
I think she's a cutie.
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:07:36 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
USS Antietam (CG 54) is not a Coast Guard boat.
Should be USS Antietam (DDG 54)
Chances are that the hull would not stand up to sea duty any longer nor are there any powder or shells for the guns. Nice idea 50 years too late.
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:08:15 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: PIF
Could be wrong but I think CG stands for “Cruiser Guided [Missle]”
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:13:56 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: PIF
I worked with the U.S.S Antietam and she is a Cruiser-Cruiser Guided-(Missile Class).
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:15:22 PM PDT
by
Trueblackman
(I often wonder if the Trump haters take their haterade on the rock, shaken or stirred?)
To: BenLurkin
“I was Formosa before I was against it.” - J. F. Kerry
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:15:25 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:15:59 PM PDT
by
Trueblackman
(I often wonder if the Trump haters take their haterade on the rock, shaken or stirred?)
To: PIF
The New Jersey...she’ll be fine, and recommend pulling off two of the main batteries anyway and wedging in VLS systems.
Give ATK the contract for brand new replacement 16” shells and propellant.
Pull out all the old wiring and give her current “avionics” and fire control. CIWS all over and nice new auto-cannons to replace the dual five inch mounts.
For somebody sitting (literally) in a Lazy Boy I sure do have a vivid imagination.
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:18:14 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Heck, I want a battleship with drones for its own air cover, and drones for torpedo defense.
Leave a battery or two of 16 in guns to destroy.. anything- and cheaply!
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:22:04 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(all the time)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:22:33 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: PIF
That would be confusing insofar as the ship she is sailing with is already DDG-54, and (for what it’s worth) Wikipedia thinks the Antietam is a guided missile cruiser:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Antietam_(CG-54)
But I am not now, nor have I ever been in the Navy, and I could be quite wrong.
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:27:28 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: PIF
Wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Antietam_(CG-54)
What caught my eye was:
“During the deployment, she had an extended stay in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. On the return to home port, she disembarked nearly a third of her active personnel in Florida to make room for family and friends of the remaining crew, who embarked in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to take part in a friends and family “tiger cruise” back to San Diego. “
Wow! When my Dad was in we got lots of tours, and even a short cruise in the Chesapeake- but nothing like that!
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:28:14 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(all the time)
To: DoodleDawg
“Which means the officers in charge of the other ones were men? What can you do? “
Did you read what happened on ‘Hir’ ship?
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:29:24 PM PDT
by
dljordan
(WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: mrsmith
No flight deck, but if the drones can use the aft helipad then heck yeah!
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posted on
10/22/2018 4:30:54 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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