"What Happens If A U.S. Navy And Chinese Vessel Collide?" Topic

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Tango01	09 Oct 2018 9:04 p.m. PST
"What would happen should a U.S. Navy warship collide with a Chinese vessel while demonstrating on behalf of freedom of the sea? This hasn't been a trivial or hypothetical question since at least April 2001, when a Chinese fighter jet hotdogging near a U.S. Navy EP-3 surveillance plane slammed into the American aircraft, kindling a diplomatic crisis between the Chinese Communist Party leadership and the newly installed administration of President George W. Bush. This aerial encounter furnished advance warning of what might happen on the surface below….." Main page link Amicalement Armand
Thresher01	10 Oct 2018 12:40 a.m. PST
I suspect it will be a major incident, and certainly should be.
Lion in the Stars	10 Oct 2018 4:43 a.m. PST
All the diplomats get to yell and scream. The American Captain loses his job. Whoever was Officer of the Deck during the collision also loses their job. Hopefully nobody dies, but when you get 10,000 tons of steel bouncing around, well, it's not pretty.
FatherOfAllLogic	10 Oct 2018 5:16 a.m. PST
Well, we get to see who builds stouter ships…..
Tgunner	10 Oct 2018 5:21 a.m. PST
Or maybe the US skipper orders the 5" mount to put a round across the Chineseman's bow, then locks on the thing's superstructure for the next round if they don't back off. Things could get that scary if the Chinese push the issue with the wrong captain.
Tango01	10 Oct 2018 9:46 a.m. PST
(smile) Amicalement Armand
Stryderg	10 Oct 2018 10:03 a.m. PST
One or both of the ships sinks?
carne68	10 Oct 2018 12:48 p.m. PST
Used to happen a lot. YouTube link YouTube link …before the navy got wussified.
HMS Exeter	10 Oct 2018 3:11 p.m. PST
I'd like to think we've got a sub running close by our DD. If it gets too hairy, the US captain goes hard astern and stops. The sub up periscopes nearby and the US Captain's radios the Chinese commander "move it or lose it."
NavyVet	10 Oct 2018 3:55 p.m. PST
Both ships sail off as best able. Protests are made by both sides and life goes on. That's the way it happened during the Cold War.
Tgerritsen	10 Oct 2018 4:56 p.m. PST
They make a little gunboat and live happily ever after?
Thresher01	10 Oct 2018 10:47 p.m. PST
I don't think that's how it works, TG. Only in ice cream ads………….

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