U.S. Military Set to Intercept North Korean Ship

[SteamWake]

I posted this in another thread however I think its important enough to not be overlooked. Now this is scary stuff.

The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense official. The order to inderdict has not been given yet, but the ship is getting into position.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...issiles-nukes/

[Letum]

Another J.Mc'C boat/ship in the news?!
How many do you have?

[GoldenRivet]

1.

its the same destroyer

(says in the article)

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Letum

Another J.Mc'C boat/ship in the news?!
How many do you have?

Same boat, there keeping busy and earning my tax money.

BTW its named after Senator McCain's father and grandfather both of whom served at some high level of the navy.

[Letum]

Ahh! I thought the first was a sub!

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Letum

Ahh! I thought the first was a sub!

No they had a run in with a chinese sub last week.

The sub had been 'shadowing' them and ran into their towed array.

The plot thickens.

[Letum]

It hadn't occurred to me that destroyers would have towed arrays.
/palmface

[GoldenRivet]

these days... any fairly large surface combatant operating without a towed array is operating with a huge tactical disadvantage.

[SteamWake]

Forgot to add this little tid bit which helps to paint the entire picture.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is moving ground-to-air missile defenses to Hawaii as tensions escalate between Washington and Pyongyang over North Korea's recent moves to restart its nuclear-weapon program and resume test-firing long-range missiles.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124535285705228571.html

[Steel_Tomb]

Hmmmm. It needs to be done, but do you think the regime will hold to its word of a retaliatory attack? Logic would suggest not as they would be wiped out, but like the old saying goes... "fear the old men, for they have nothing to loose".

[GoldenRivet]

its a repeat offender... i say hit it from BVR with some sort of long range torpedo or missiles.

that way the ship just sort of vanishes.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

its a repeat offender... i say hit it from BVR with some sort of long range torpedo or missiles.

that way the ship just sort of vanishes.

Too many eyes on it now.

Used to get away with that in the 'good ole days'.

Ive been watching the A&E documentry on WW2 recently and Im always stunned at how massive troop movements were able to be mustered 'undetected'. You would never get away with that now.

Hell you cant even swat a fly without it going un noticed. :rotfl:

[AVGWarhawk]

You bet they are busy out there. If Korea said they are going to fire a missile at Hawaii and they did, time to be vigilant. Imagine if they did send a missile less nuke warhead? This could get more interesting that we would like.

[geetrue]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

You bet they are busy out there. If Korea said they are going to fire a missile at Hawaii and they did, time to be vigilant. Imagine if they did send a missile less nuke warhead? This could get more interesting that we would like.

This move might make the citzens of Hawaii feel better, but surely North Korea is not that crazy to fire one.

The starving masses of North Korea would become the flaming masses.

I heard some disturbing news that the white house has said we can stop them, but we can't board them.

Sort of like the pirate situation, uh?

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by geetrue

This move might make the citzens of Hawaii feel better, but surely North Korea is not that crazy to fire one.

The starving masses of North Korea would become the flaming masses.

I heard some disturbing news that the white house has said we can stop them, but we can't board them.

Sort of like the pirate situation, uh?

This is certainly posturing on NK part. China has the ability to bring NK to their knees over this. I'm not sure why China has not stood up. At any rate, we show equal force and posture ourselves. We have about as much intentions of lighting one off as the NK do. What I possibly foresee and huge mistake is NK lighting on off for Hawaii but manually detonating it a thousand miles out. That is a potential recipy for disaster.