Chinese ships 'harass' US vessel

Five Chinese ships have manoeuvred dangerously close to a US navy vessel in the South China Sea, the US government has said.
US officials said the incident came after days of "increasingly aggressive" acts by Chinese ships.

The incident happened on Sunday as the USNS Impeccable was on routine operations in international waters 75 miles (120km) south of Hainan island, a US statement said.

The ships had "aggressively manoeuvred" around the Impeccable "in an apparent co-ordinated effort to harass the US ocean surveillance ship while it was conducting routine operations in international waters", according to the Pentagon.

The US ship sprayed one Chinese vessel with water from fire hoses to try to force it away, it said.

But it said the Chinese crew stripped to their underwear and carried on approaching to within 25ft (8m).

The Pentagon identified the Chinese boats as a navy intelligence ship and four other vessels.

When the Impeccable radioed requesting a safe path to leave the area, two Chinese vessels dropped pieces of wood in its path, forcing the US ship to make an emergency stop, the Pentagon said.
wtf, are they smoking? They have some balls to surround a Navy ship, lucky the ship dident call in one of its big brothers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/verymad.gif.3f39c5c2fd57527b671fad3efdfac756.gif

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7933171.stm

 
didn't something like this happen not to long ago? the us navy was sitting there and up pops an enemy submarine. the scary part was the us didn't know they were there until the sub came to the surface.

 
No defense but a water gun FTL

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how did we miss this???

ve Chinese ships have manoeuvred dangerously close to a US navy vessel in the South China Sea, the US government has said.

US officials said the incident came after days of "increasingly aggressive" acts by Chinese ships.

The incident happened on Sunday as the USNS Impeccable was on routine operations in international waters 75 miles (120km) south of Hainan island, a US statement said.

The ships had "aggressively manoeuvred" around the Impeccable "in an apparent co-ordinated effort to harass the US ocean surveillance ship while it was conducting routine operations in international waters", according to the Pentagon.

The US ship sprayed one Chinese vessel with water from fire hoses to try to force it away, it said.

But it said the Chinese crew stripped to their underwear and carried on approaching to within 25ft (8m).

The Pentagon identified the Chinese boats as a navy intelligence ship and four other vessels.

When the Impeccable radioed requesting a safe path to leave the area, two Chinese vessels dropped pieces of wood in its path, forcing the US ship to make an emergency stop, the Pentagon said.

 
I would have laughed my *** off if they got to close to them and got pulled under the ship. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 
pieces of wood would **** that hull class up

look ,,

that pic of the guy posted a few posts up looks like a twin hulled (catamaran) ring prop driven boat.

so large enough pieces of wood would destroy either the compression rings on the prop ducts or the props themselves

you guys need to learn boat //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 
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