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> in 2006 china managed to tail a US aircraft carrier and emerge in torpedo range with a Song 039 type submarine, a generation behind the US, which was previous
by rjsw 6y ago
> in 2006 china managed to tail a US aircraft carrier and emerge in torpedo range with a Song 039 type submarine, a generation behind the US, which was previously thought incapable of such an operation.
The alternative version of that story is that the Carrier Group commander was quietly commended for not giving away how far out they detected the submarine.
- sanguy 6y agoThe extended alternate version is that the SSN Jimmy Carter had been ghosting the Song 039 for <<undisclosed>> days.