China 'locks radar' on Japan ship
 

Looks like things are heating up...only a matter of time before China acts like North Korea did in the Cheonan incident perhaps? :hmm2:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21337444

Meanwhile down in the bowels of that Japanese warship the ELINT boys were marking that tape "FWD TO USN ONI".

For a secretive nation, they can certainly do some dumb things at times. Some captain is going to get a kicking before he gets a commendation.

I still can't see it coming to much more than perhaps a few low calibre shots fired. Although one does have to wonder, if China keeps up like this, will Japan seek to overturn Article 9 of the constitution? :hmmm:

Gotta love ESM! :yeah:

Eh!? What do those damn child-napping creeps got to do with this!?

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Office_of_Naval_Intelligence

The Japanese are lucky the Chinese government was not coordinated this time. They left themselves rather wide open by not producing any navigational and track data to go along with their claim.

If the Chinese were coordinated they could have tried to claim the Japanese steered their vessels and heloes in provocative ways and the Chinese were trying to warn them off.

Even if they have to completely fabricate the navigational chart to do it, it'll be difficult for the Japanese to counter. They can produce their own data but then they'll have lost the initiative and China can say they are lying. Since that was rather far out on the high seas, there probably were no third parties with the combination of means with "eyes" on the incident area, credibility and neutrality to make definitive support for any side (for example if an American satellite or sub saw something, well, America is Japan's ally...).

On a basic level, it is hard to think that the Chinese will give up their fire control radar information for nothing, so the tendency will be to give some credence to the Chinese claim.

The Japanese didn't do the PR as well as they should have and should count themselves lucky IMHO.