USS John McCain moving to intercept North Korean ship

[Hugabear]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/19/military-set-intercept-north-korean-ship-suspected-proliferatin-missiles-nukes/

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The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense official. The order to inderdict has not been given yet, but the ship is getting into position.
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USS John McCain? What's it going to do once it intercepts, snarl at the North Koreans? :rofl:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Armed with Sarah Palin?

[Hugabear]

4. Sarah Palin can see North Korea's missiles from her house

Maybe she's on board to help with the espionage...

[htuttle]

2. Hope it doesn't get captured...

:spank:

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. .

:evilgrin:

[MNDemNY]

3. the sailors will line up in the deck and shout "Get off my lawn!!"

[tridim]

5. Get off'a mah ocean you damn kids!

[LeftHander]

6. USS Sarah Palin, a dinghy from USS John McCain

Was launched to intercept Putin.

[Davis_X_Machina]

8. Old tradition....

...the USSJoseph P. Kennedy was one of the ships on the 1962 Missile Crisis blockade.

[Captain Hilts]

9. It's named for his father, who actually was a wonderful officer. Submariner.

[Hugabear]

10. #8 and #9 are spoil-sports

Way to totally derail the whole McCain-Palin thing :hippie:

[Caliman73]

11. USS McCain?

I was thinking, why would they name a ship after him, but then I realized that the ships were probably named after his dad or grandfather who were admirals. In that case, the ship will most likely intercept and launch the patrol boat USS McCain III which will promptly crash.

[timeforpeace]

12. Proves it's a bi-partisan effort

Amazing how they seem to know exactly what's on this ship, how N Korea will respond, and how this will play out given the reluctance to be provocative previously. Seems strange. I bet we don't get close to it. It's a bluff to irritate Kim.

[LuckyLib]

13. Reason #4587 NOT to name buildings, objects, ships after people,

living or dead. If this had happened before the election, imagine the headlines!

McCain at war with aggressor!
McCain speeds to the rescue!
McCain moving in for the confrontation!

[Baclava]

14. The same ship that got tangled up with the Chinese sub.

Busy week.


Sub collides with sonar array towed by U.S. Navy ship

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In what a U.S. military official calls an "inadvertent encounter," a Chinese submarine hit an underwater sonar array being towed by the destroyer USS John McCain on Thursday.

The array was damaged, but the sub and the ship did not collide, the official said.



http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/12/china.submarine/?iref=mpstoryview

[Javaman]

15. No, it's actually the real john mccain. he's able to fly and shoot missiles out his ass...

at least he claims they are missiles.

[Kaleva]

16. Ship named after Sen. McCain's father and grandfather

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. What's it going to do once it intercepts, ?

All depends.

[SIMPLYB1980]

19. snort. nt

[rucky]

18. Shouldn't we call it the USS Rod Woodson

if we want it to intercept?

[elehhhhna]

20. What's it going to do once it intercepts? It will signal "GETOFF MY LAWN!!!"

[old mark]

21. The McCain is an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, a high speed

turbine engined (108,000 horsepower) ship armed with various types of missiles and guns, plus torpedoes and ant-submarine weapons. Home port is in Japan.

It's a very good ship.t was named after the 2 Admirals, not the Captain from Panama.

mark

[steelmania75]

22. It'll say "my friends" multiple times