On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:28:03 -0500, "Steve W." wrote:

Millwright Ron wrote:
The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy
exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced



Gee I guess the paper needs to check it's stories. This happened LAST YEAR

During operations off Okinawa back on 26 October 2006,
the Navy is saying that a Chinese Song class submarine
evidently made a rather close approach to aircraft carrier
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). The Song class boat evidently
surfaced within five miles of the carrier. Whether the
approach of the Song class boat was actually undetected,
the Navy refuses to say. In addition to Kitty Hawk,
(“the Battle Cat”), with her own air group --
the Kitty Hawk Strike Group includes a couple of cruisers,
seven destroyers, and a pair of submarines, plus, most
likely, satellites on call; all with a significant amount
of submarine detection ability.


Okinawa, That'll be USA'n territorial waters then? What's the problem? there's
plenty of ocean to play in :-)


Mark Rand
RTFM