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2016-12-17 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese snag US underwater drone, self-immolation fails.

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Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 00:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 01:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Where's Michelle with the #BringBackOurUUV hashtag?

Posted by gorb 2016-12-17 02:41|| 2016-12-17 02:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 06:16|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 - with Sad Sea Bass Face™

Posted by Frank G 2016-12-17 06:37|| 2016-12-17 06:37|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 07:39|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 07:59|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 08:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 08:21|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 08:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Seize a couple of their artificial islands.

Seems like a fair trade.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-12-17 09:16|| 2016-12-17 09:16|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 09:59|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 10:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 11:54|| Front Page Top

#15 overbred aircraft transport

I thought that was the new model artificial reef, Mike.

Posted by AlanC 2016-12-17 14:59|| 2016-12-17 14:59|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-12-17 18:51|| Front Page Top

#17 Come home JOE!

Posted by Shipman 2016-12-17 23:50|| 2016-12-17 23:50|| Front Page Top

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