Speculation and facts on future Chinese vessels
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Red___Sword
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What is the "jobscope" of USNS Impeccable actually?
its an ocean surveillance ship (intelligence gathering!) but seems to be specialized for underwater signature tracking and classification.
I though you might be asking a rhetorical question because the impeccable was the ship that got it's tow sonar cable cut by chinese 'fisherman' in the hainan incident a few years back.
I though you might be asking a rhetorical question because the impeccable was the ship that got it's tow sonar cable cut by chinese 'fisherman' in the hainan incident a few years back.
Geographer
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The cable was not cut. Some Chinese sailors were photographed with a grappling hook under water but there were no reports of it snagging anything. You might be confusing it with the recent incident where a Chinese ship did cut an underwater cable being laid by a Vietnamese ship near the Spratly Islands.
Directly from the US Navy;
The US Navy also has 4 Victorious class Ocean Surveillance Ships.
I also remember they were to replace some of the function of the SOSUS net especially with regards to SOSUS performance in littoral. mobile SOSUS in littoral if you will.
SOSUS was good at open ocean choke points, UK-Iceland-greenland gap for example, but not so near shore.
thus the extreme sensitivity when Impeccable was towing a huge sonar array (some say it was also active) near one of china biggest nuclear sub base...
I mean, sorry to make an observation but, they had it coming.
There is a open bounty in Chinese coastal fisherman community for any equipment belong on those ships.
and the miles long cable they tow do get tangled with trawler nets. so I wouldn't be surprised if there is a genuine hostility towards those ships.
besides they were towing a sonar some 90 nms from Sanya.
they had it coming.
I mean if a PLAN ship manned by chinese civilian "contractors" were towing a mile long sonar near kingsbay or Bangor/Kitsap or Norfolk. with the explicit purpose of tracking USN boomer subs. what would be USN's reaction?
I find it difficult sometimes to put some people in other people's shoes, to make them go beyond the reflective moral indignation driven by pure nationalism.
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I mean if a PLAN ship manned by chinese civilian "contractors" were towing a mile long sonar near kingsbay or Bangor/Kitsap or Norfolk. with the explicit purpose of tracking USN boomer subs. what would be USN's reaction?
I would expect USN to be seriously upset and that two dozen Senators and Congress men to scream bloody murder.
I mean if a PLAN ship manned by chinese civilian "contractors" were towing a mile long sonar near kingsbay or Bangor/Kitsap or Norfolk. with the explicit purpose of tracking USN boomer subs. what would be USN's reaction?
I would expect USN to be seriously upset and that two dozen Senators and Congress men to scream bloody murder.
Spartan95
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The shipyard is building a SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) ship!
This is a novel hull form that is new and few shipyards in the world have experience building. Impressive work!
By the way, that's the same hull form as the USNS Impeccable (of the incident near Hainan a few years back).
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