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Editors' Pick|Jun 15, 2021,08:00am EDT|712 views
A Few Weeks Ago, American And Chinese Aircraft Carriers Were On A Collision Course In The Western Pacific—Check Out The Map
David AxeForbes Staff
When you hear Pentagon officials talk about “great-power competition,” this is what they mean. In April and May, the U.S. and Chinese navies each sailed two aircraft carriers and their escorts into the South China Sea.
At the same time, the Philippine military mobilized to protect resource-rich islands from Chinese militia boats, Chinese warplanes probed Taiwanese air-defenses and U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers arrived in Guam for patrols over the region.
It was one of the heaviest concentrations of competing air and naval power in modern times—and in one of the world’s most volatile regions. Expect these near collisions of fleets and air forces to continue as China grows its armed forces and the United States and its allies make plans to deter them.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/06/15/this-spring-american-and-chinese-aircraft-carriers-were-on-a-collision-course-in-the-western-pacific-check-out-the-map/?sh=b43a62d128d1
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You might think such thinks shouldn't happen, but they do. The carrier I was on was operating off San Diego in pretty much in 0/0 visibility fog when our radar picked up a small ship crossing our bow ahead. We came into a little clearing and that little ship turned out to be another carrier. Fog can do funny things to radar propagation. :scared smiley: