Chinese Frigate Refloats

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The navy frigate that ran aground in the waters of China's Nansha Islands has successful refloated with the assistance of a rescue force, an official release said Sunday.

The frigate stranded in the waters around the Banyue Shoal of Nansha Islands managed to refloat on its own at around 5 am Sunday with the assistance of the Chinese navy's rescue force, a news release posted on the website of the country's Defense Ministry said.

The fore body of the ship was slightly injured, all staffs were safe and the ship will be on a return voyage, according to the statement.

"It has not caused any contamination for the nearby waters," the statement said.

The ministry said Friday the ship ran aground when conducting routine patrol mission at about 7:00 pm Wednesday.

Stranded Chinese frigate around Nansha Islands refloats - Globaltimes.cn


The efficiency of the Chinese Navy at work.

[NiceGuy]

The accident proves that china warship is nothing but junk

[acetophenol]

The accident proves that china warship is nothing but junk

how can you say that?

[ahfatzia]

The newly floated brigade 560 is set to sail home, wave its flag as to say goodbye to Philippines but its whittle blows seem to mean otherwise: "I shall return!'' echos through the waves.

[Rechoice]

The newly floated brigade 560 is set to sail home, wave its flag as to say goodbye to Philippines but its whittle blows seem to mean otherwise: "I shall return!'' echos through the waves.

such accident should be predicted that bad thing will be waiting them in future.

[sexy gun]

dysfunctional sonar ? How the hell can it run aground ? was the captain a hovercraft pilot before his commisionning ? LOL !!

juvenile PLAN officers

[Martian2]

dysfunctional sonar ? How the hell can it run aground ? was the captain a hovercraft pilot before his commisionning ? LOL !!

juvenile PLAN officers

When an U.S. $1 billion missile cruiser runs aground, you anti-China clowns never say anything. When China has an accident, you anti-Chinese trolls hop up and down. Why the double standard?

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Navy ship runs aground off Honolulu - US news - Military - msnbc.com

"Navy removes fuel to lighten grounded ship
$1 billion missile cruiser gets stuck on shoal off Honolulu
updated 2/7/2009 11:54:57 PM ET

HONOLULU — The Navy offloaded fuel, water and personnel from a grounded, $1 billion guided missile cruiser so tugboats and a salvage ship can try again early Sunday morning to free it from a rock and sand shoal.

The USS Port Royal ran aground on Thursday evening, about a half-mile south of the Honolulu airport where it was visible from several vantage points on Oahu.

No one was injured and no oil or other contaminants have leaked, said representatives of the Navy and Coast Guard, as well as state officials.

At a press conference, Rear Admiral Joseph Walsh, deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, said the ship is structurally sound. But he added that a thick, underwater rubber encasement that surrounds sonar equipment at the bow has taken on seawater.

A barge received fuel and fresh water from the Port Royal on Saturday, which Walsh said should make the grounded vessel approximately 200 tons lighter. The 9,600-ton warship will also be an additional 15 tons lighter because half the crew of 360 is on shore.

Another reason for moving half the crew was that the ship’s air conditioning was not functioning because the vent through which seawater is drawn to cool the system is blocked as the ship sits on the shoal, Walsh said.

A lighter Port Royal, combined with a peak high tide and the pulling power of an oceangoing tug, some smaller harbor tugs and the salvage ship Salvor, should do the trick when a third effort is made to free the ship around 3:25 a.m. on Sunday, Walsh said.

“The issue becomes one of how much weight is on the ship versus our ability to pull that weight off of the reef,” Walsh said.

Four-month routine

Two previous efforts on Friday and Saturday mornings using harbor tugs that tried to pull the ship backward and away from the shoal were unsuccessful.

The 15-year-old Port Royal had just ended a four-month routine maintenance visit to Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and was finishing the first day of sea trials when it ran aground at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday.

“The ship was maneuvering to off-load some of the sailors and some of the contractors and shipyard personnel, and she was in her normal spot for doing those types of small-boat transfers,” Walsh said.

He added later that the shoal was known to the Navy. “Clearly, the ship is not where the ship should have been. The investigation will determine exactly why the ship got to the point where she was in shoal water,” Walsh said.

The Port Royal is sitting in about 22 feet of water, aground along the length of her port side on a bed of sand and rock of the type that was used to construct one of the nearby airport’s runways, Walsh said."

[cyphercide]

The newly floated brigade 560 is set to sail home, wave its flag as to say goodbye to Philippines but its whittle blows seem to mean otherwise: "I shall return!'' echos through the waves.

The rocks in the seabed seem to be humming a different tune. Sounds like....Na-na-nah-na, na-na-nah-na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye ...


Where are the folks who were claiming that this incident was a de facto Trojan horse engineered deliberately by the Chinese to maintain a forced presence. I must say, you guys spin stuff pretty well.

[Martian2]

Where are the folks who were claiming that this incident was a de facto Trojan horse engineered deliberately by the Chinese to maintain a forced presence. I must say, you guys spin stuff pretty well.

It's called humor, which you didn't understand.

US Navy warships run aground regularly. This is no big deal.

China and the U.S. have very large navies that travel widely. This is par for the course.

[cyphercide]

You guys don't understand Chinese gov at all
if it is really a accident， state media won't spread this news actively cause it's a shame of navy
If you check the reef where the frigate run aground, you will find it's very near Palawan Island

This incident is a kind of strategy, Half moon reef will be controlled by China from now on.

Nay!

Sounds like China is going to permanatly occupy the reef by learning the trick from the Philippines when you stranded your naval ship then occupied Second Thomas Shoal.

Check this out:
Stranded Philippine ship reaches naval HQ. - Free Online Library



The Vietnamese did the same trick.

We'll see.

Now we have a permanent structure over there, HAH!

This is one of the oldest ships in PLAN inventory, and it "accidentally" hit rocks.

Accidental or not, we should leave the frigate there as a permanent structure. Of course, simply chase away any Philippines ships that interferes with our "rescue".

That "rescue" is going to take decades.

You just nailed it, they won't use the precious Type 052C to perform that kind of task.

Yes so embarrassing, because something like this NEVER happens. Guess what now? China will now need to send a 'rescue team' to the area, which is inside what the Philippines claim as its territory. The rescue team may be escorted by a fleet of warships because you never know what will happen in enemy waters.


If the rescue is successful, perhaps we will have another ship get stuck near Manila.

Confiscate the frigate? Don't just talk buddy, do it i say. This would give China a good reason to send the whole fleet for the rescue operation.

Apparently, Chinese humor sucks. There are more posts of the same nature(you should know,you thanked many of them).

[Martian2]

Apparently, Chinese humor sucks

When you have the world's second-most powerful navy, you're allowed to make jokes.

Want me to show you pictures of the 7th Type 052C AESA-radar destroyer under construction? China's massive naval build-up is no joke and the U.S. isn't laughing.

[45'22']

When you have the world's second-most powerful navy, you're allowed to make jokes.

Want me to show you pictures of the 7th Type 052C AESA-radar destroyer? China's massive naval build-up is no joke and the U.S. isn't laughing.

***** please

[karan.1970]

When you have the world's second-most powerful navy, you're allowed to make jokes.

Want me to show you pictures of the 7th Type 052C AESA-radar destroyer under construction? China's massive naval build-up is no joke and the U.S. isn't laughing.

ok.. what ever "floats" your boat

[Martian2]

***** please

Only China can claim to be a "near peer competitor" of the U.S. in the assessment of U.S. military officials.

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http://www.airforce-magazine.com/Mag...09carrier.aspx

"A Specter Haunts the Carrier
By Rebecca Grant
December 2009
Vol. 92, No. 12

The growing threat posed by China, not to mention political woes, has shaken up the US Navy.

Navy aviators have begun a quiet but earnest threat reappraisal. “You will face an adversary who believes he can beat you, your airplane, your tactics, and your sensors,” four-star Adm. Patrick M. Walsh warned carrier pilots in late 2009.

The Navy is taking emerging threats in the Pacific seriously, and China looms large in this regard. Walsh, in fact, was intentionally repeating an identical remark voiced in 2008 by Adm. Robert F. Willard, who in October took over command of US Pacific Command.

Official statements from the Navy have begun cautiously to acknowledge a growing threat. Adm. Timothy J. Keating observed the Pacific near-peer for two years while commanding PACOM.

“They’ve got 65-some submarines,” he said of China’s military. “They’ve got some relatively sophisticated and capable air force assets. Their defense budget is apparently growing. It is hardly transparent to us how much money they spend, much less what they’re spending that money on.”

“By the next decade, China will have more warships than the United States,” wrote Rear Adm. Terry B. Kraft in the September 2009 issue of US Naval Institute’s Proceedings.

Detailed, tactical attention to the prospect of an air battle with China has taken on new importance in the last few years.

China’s advanced aircraft, air defenses, and ballistic missiles pose a threat to carrier aircraft. Modified ballistic missiles such as the DF-21 may target carrier strike groups. A direct hit on a carrier is such a nightmare scenario that Proceedings ran an artist’s rendition of the aftermath of a missile hitting a Nimitz-class carrier as a cover illustration this year.

Yet a direct hit is not the chief scenario. Saturation attacks, to disrupt US operations, are more within China’s near-term technical reach.

Trying to launch or recover aircraft under threat of a missile barrage would be extremely taxing. The missile threat could disrupt flight deck operations or force carriers to operate farther from the shore. Like Air Force expeditionary wings, carrier air wings are very busy, but unlike the deployed Air Force wings, they don’t operate any stealth aircraft or unmanned air vehicles.

That is about to change, provided the Navy can survive Quadrennial Defense Review-driven budget cuts. (article continues)."

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When you have the world's second-most powerful navy, you're allowed to make jokes.

Want me to show you pictures of the 7th Type 052C AESA-radar destroyer under construction? China's massive naval build-up is no joke and the U.S. isn't laughing.

No Sir. I am not questioning the strength of the Chinese fleet. But wouldn't it have been simpler to admit everybody makes booboos instead of spinning it as some sort of undercover bid to take over.


The stronger a tree grows,more it bows with humility.