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Around Oct 1st - 2nd, 2021 China Almost Sank The USS Connecticut - A US Nuclear Submarine - Off Hainan Island
The Americans have been up to no good again. And once again they have been punched squarely in the nose.
I did notice that from October 2nd till about October 5th there was this unusual news about numerous Chinese aircraft "encroaching" into Taiwanese airspace (US media bullshit). In four days (1st - 5th Oct) about 145 Chinese warplanes flew "near Taiwan".
Friday October 1st, 2021 - 38 Chinese fighters penetrated Taiwan’s airspace
Sat October 2nd, 2021 - China further increased provocations with 39 aircraft
Sunday October 3, 2021 - 39 Chinese fighter planes invade Taiwan’s airspace. US urged China to stop "provocative military activity" near Taiwan.
Monday Oct. 4 (UPI) -- 56 Chinese warplanes flew into Taiwan "air defense zone"
52 aircraft in the day, 4 at night -- highest total in a single day
36 fighters, 12 bombers, 2 Y-8 anti/submarine warfare planes, 2 AWACS
Then after 5th October 2021 there were no more reports of Chinese planes "encroaching" into Taiwan airspace. Everything went quiet.
Well the Chinese planes did not penetrate Taiwan's internationally recognised sovereign airspace but flew inside what the US Airforce has designated as Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone - which stretches into the Chinese mainland itself !! It was created by the US Air Force and has no legal status !!
Most of the Chinese flight activity was from the west to the east of China's own Pratas Island. (See map).
What had happened was that around the 1st - 2nd October 2021 the US Navy's nuclear powered Seawolf class attack submarine the USS Connecticut had approached to within 20 nautical miles (which is extremely very close) of China's Hainan Island. There is a major Chinese submarine base - the Yulin Naval Base - located on the south of the island.
Then the USS Connecticut was said to have "suffered an unknown underwater collision" at that time (1st - 2nd October). Here is some American news.
This news was first reported on Thursday 7th October - FIVE days after the unknown underwater collision happened.
Almost dozen sailors injured after U.S. nuclear attack submarine hit unknown underwater object in the South China Sea
Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) suffered an underwater collision while operating in international waters on Oct. 2 and is returning to port in U.S. 7th Fleet, U.S. Pacific Fleet confirmed Thurs (7th Oct).
“Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) struck an object while submerged on the afternoon of Oct. 2, while operating in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region.
(OSTB : Indo-Pacific region? It was 20 nautical miles off Hainan Island.)
The extent of damage to submarine being assessed.
sailors hurt with moderate to minor injuries.
boat headed to Guam, expected to pull in within next day (Fri 8th Oct).
underwater "strike" occurred in South China Sea
attack boat making its way to Guam on the surface since Saturday
Note that it has changed from "unknown underwater collission" to "underwater strike". So did they collide or did they suffer a "strike"?
Here is a picture of a Seawolf class American nuclear attack submarine. This is the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN23), a "sister" ship to the USS Connecticut (SSN22). The Seawolf subs weigh about 9000 tons and are 353 feet long.
You can immediately dismiss press reports that this 353 feet long, 9000 ton monster submarine was damaged because it had hit debris and rubbish floating in the South China Sea - including silly stories about hitting 20 foot containers that fell off a container ship!! 20 foot containers would just bounce off the 9000 ton submarine's hardened outer hull.
The news said:
attack boat making its way to Guam on the surface since Saturday
This means the submarine was not able to dive or submerge anymore. Obviously there was serious damage to the pressure hull which prevented the submarine from submerging.
Fortunately for the USS Connecticut the sea around Hainan Island (and the South China Sea) is about 500 feet plus or minus, which is fairly 'shallow' for a nuclear sub and where the water pressure is well below its crush depth of 3,000 feet (Seawolf class).
Otherwise the sub may have sunk to the bottom of the sea. That could have been really embarrassing for the US - why did the US Navy put the sub at such risk and in such shallow water?
Analysts are saying that the Chinese detected the submarine so near to Hainan Island (within 20 nautical miles) and decided to take action. Hence the 39 Chinese aircraft that took off on Friday 1st October. They may have dropped underwater attack drones which caught the American sub and either collided with it or exploded against the sub. (Hence 12 sailors getting injured. There is no way 12 sailors can get injured inside a 9,000 ton submarine that hit floating debris in the water.)
Whatever they used, the Chinese hit the sub and damaged it. Enough to make the sub surface and stay on the surface. The Chinese will certainly not be telling anyone how they hit the sub.
Then over the next few days the Chinese air force kept an eye on the damaged submarine until it was well outside Chinese waters. Hence all those 145 warplanes (including 2 Shaanxi Y-8 anti/submarine warfare planes, 2 AWACS ) which were buzzing around the submarine.
I believe the Chinese could have sunk the submarine if they wanted to. They did not. It could have caused a war. This was a message to the US Navy that China can detect and hit their submarines. So stay away from us.
The last righteous war which the Americans fought was the Second World War. All other American wars since then have been wars of aggression. And the Americans have not decisively won a single war since World War 2.
Korea was a stalemate, they got their butts kicked out of Vietnam. Iraq was a farce, they got kicked out of Afghanistan.
In 1983 one Shia suicide bomber killed over 200 US Marines and kicked them all out of Lebanon.
In 1993 the Americans left Somalia (Mogadishu) in a hurry after the Black Hawk chopper incident which caused them serious embarrasment.
In 2019 the Iranians shot down an American Global Hawk drone at 60,000 feet. All American (and British) drone flights over Iran have since been cancelled.
Now it looks like the US Navy will not be sending any more submarines anywhere near the Chinese coast.
Who knows - maybe a US aircraft carrier may also hit an unknown object.
The US Navy may be changing from blue water to brown water.
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