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Chinese snag US underwater drone, self-immolation fails.
2016-12-17
Posted by:Skidmark

#17  Come home JOE!
Posted by: Shipman   2016-12-17 23:50  

#16  The South China Sea is shallow. WW2 US subs had to be very careful in that AO
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2016-12-17 18:51  

#15   overbred aircraft transport

I thought that was the new model artificial reef, Mike.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-12-17 14:59  

#14  ..I say send a couple of smart and aggressive SSN skippers to start doing random 'Yankee Searches' on PRC warships, especially that overbred aircraft transport they call a carrier.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2016-12-17 11:54  

#13  It may be they didn't want any information about their precious islands to get out from undersea charting. Which of course means there's something WRONG with the islands.
Posted by: Charles   2016-12-17 10:15  

#12  Don't need to attack the so called large stationary targets. Hit China economically. Sun Tzu back at you ChiComs.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2016-12-17 09:59  

#11  Seize a couple of their artificial islands.

Seems like a fair trade.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-12-17 09:16  

#10  Well, at least they didn't have to hack into the contractors computer for the the specs. They just picked one up.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad   2016-12-17 08:24  

#9  What may be happening is that China and Russia et. al. were so invested in the expected Hillary coronation that they didn't plan for the possibility of DJT.

Therefore, all of the crap they've been planning to take advantage of BHO and HRC weakness and incompetence and evil intent had to get moved up real fast cause they doubt that DJT will play along.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-12-17 08:21  

#8  Man that frequency crap is the worst ain't it? They broadcast Lesley Gore mashups to me at dawn. :(
Posted by: Shipman   2016-12-17 08:00  

#7  Nothing done about this one either.

USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is known today as the "Pueblo incident" or alternatively, as the "Pueblo crisis".
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-12-17 07:59  

#6  Just like the weapons ISIS acquired from Obama, and the billions of dollars released to Iran, I am sure drone technology to China via this incident was not without pre-meditation by this regime.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Mussolini8596   2016-12-17 07:39  

#5  #3 - with Sad Sea Bass Faceâ„¢
Posted by: Frank G   2016-12-17 06:37  

#4  The price on that oceanographic instrument just went up. We've cancelled payments on $150B in your U.S. bonds, and we've closed west coast ports to all Chinese shipping until further notice.

You want a couple more of these things China ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-12-17 06:16  

#3  Where's Michelle with the #BringBackOurUUV hashtag?
Posted by: gorb   2016-12-17 02:41  

#2  It isn't military and there are large numbers floating around in the oceans. If China wanted whatever secrets they contain. Not that I think they have any secrets. They would have taken one sereptitiously. Which makes this provocation, pure and simple.
Posted by: phil_b   2016-12-17 01:46  

#1  I'd been more happy had the self-immolation been simply delayed.

It'll be interesting to see how far BHO has to twist himself to pass this on to DJT. Or, maybe, he'll feel the need to (dangerously) take a "Legacy" position.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2016-12-17 00:28  

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