Navy confirms Chinese sub spotted near carrier

[Nitrogenica]

The Navy did spot a Chinese submarine near the Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group last month in the East China Sea, the Navy said Monday afternoon, verifying parts of a Monday morning article in The Washington Times that said a Chinese submarine had come within “firing range” of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk on Oct. 26.

“While conducting operations, a Chinese navy Song-class submarine was sighted near the strike group by a U.S. Navy aircraft,” said Navy spokesman Lt. Sarah Self-Kyler, who would say only that the incident occurred in “late October” near Okinawa, Japan.

http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2353581.php

Reported just now on Lou Dobbs/CNN

[lapfog_1]

1. Don't our carrier groups always have a few fast attack

subs with them? I'd hate to be the sonar operators on those boats.
Course, they do have a hard job, with all of the noise of the surface fleet. But still... yikes!

Dobbs, of course, is outraged! It was a Diesel submarine! (Sigh, it was submerged when it approached the fleet... think about it, Lou)

[Rick Myers]

2. That's WAY within firing range!!

Those boats carry a tube launched anti-ship missile with a range of about 80 km. It's high-speed torpedoes have a range of at least 14 km.

[Mrs. Overall]

3. I have a friend who was in Navy Intelligence and there are things going on

below the water that the average, non-military person has no idea of. Our submarines constantly scuttle with other country's subs in a cat and mouse game, moving over borders and quickly back, chasing each other, etc...