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2007-06-26 India-Pakistan
India: USS Nimitz to dock at Chennai
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Posted by mrp 2007-06-26 09:44|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 USS Nimitz to dock at Chennai... China and Iran share collective dump in britches...
Posted by BigEd 2007-06-26 14:52||   2007-06-26 14:52|| Front Page Top

#2 ... and Pakistan, too.
Posted by mrp 2007-06-26 15:11||   2007-06-26 15:11|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope ever so much that we are providing India with advice on how to build an aircraft carrier superior to anything China has (even if obsolescent by US standards).

That would annoy the hell out of Beijing, but also incline them to spend far more on their own aircraft carriers than they want to, just to match India. And that is money not spent to counter the US Navy.
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-26 17:23||   2007-06-26 17:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Hell, just sell the Indians a couple of Tarawa-class LHAs and watch the ChiComs turn purple! The US could simply do a transfer of the next 2 Tarawas due to retire, and use the money from the sales to fund a couple more Wasp LHDs.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-06-26 20:50||   2007-06-26 20:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Orders from Beijing have come down... the head of the CPI(M) (Communist Party of India (Marxist)), one of the members of the ruling coalition has demanded the Nimitz leave. He has threatened the Indian PM with withdrawal of support.
The local Unions have begun to make noises.. the Dockworkers Union is complaining about radiation
Posted by John Frum 2007-06-26 21:26||   2007-06-26 21:26|| Front Page Top

#6 The Nimitz is "nuclear-armed?" I thought the Navy took all its nukes off its ships in 1991 or so.
Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds">Gary and the Samoyeds  2007-06-26 22:04|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2007-06-26 22:04|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought the Navy took all its nukes off its ships in 1991 or so.


uh.... yeah, if that's what quiets the locals. Our subs as well....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-06-26 22:16||   2007-06-26 22:16|| Front Page Top

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