{"id":11682,"date":"2009-06-16T07:05:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T12:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11682"},"modified":"2009-06-16T07:05:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T12:05:46","slug":"uss-john-mccain-at-sasebo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11682","title":{"rendered":"USS John McCain at Sasebo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mccain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mccain-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"mccain\" title=\"mccain\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mccain-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mccain.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS John S. McCain has arrived at Sasebo for repairs after a Chinese sub collided with the ship&#8217;s towed-array sonar last Thursday according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=63326\">Stars and Stripes<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We do not discuss detailed operational capabilities or locations of our ships,&#8221; 7th Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Jeff Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>He did say the McCain was operating in international waters and conducting routine operations. The McCain\u2019s home port is Yokosuka Naval Base, about 750 miles by land from Sasebo.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press reported that a senior researcher with the People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s Navy Equipment Research Center, Yin Zhuo, said the collision was likely an accident. He said the American destroyer appeared to have failed to detect the submarine, while the Chinese vessel set its distance from the McCain assuming it was not carrying sonar arrays, according to the state-run China Daily.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ya know, I remember a similar incident about eight years ago in which a Chinese jet collided with an American plane. Now granted, that incident involved a crash landing and hostages, much more dramatic, but it seems like it was declared a &#8220;test&#8221; of the new American President. Funny how it&#8217;s always a Chinese craft colliding with a US craft, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS John S. McCain has arrived at Sasebo for repairs after a &hellip; <a title=\"USS John McCain at Sasebo\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11682\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS John McCain at Sasebo<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}