>A U.S. warship was damaged after colliding with a merchant vessel east of Singapore on Monday. The Navy said in a statement the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with the Alnic MC vessel while "the ship was transiting to a routine port visit in Singapore."
Seriously, what is wrong with these naval captains? Handle your shit, burgers.
inshallah
wait, again?
Is this the new us naval doctrine?
Replicate roman tactics and go about ramming other ships?
>naming a warship "John McCain"
That was the first mistake.
That's the new USS Trirreme
Named after admirals, not the senator.
Well its Singapore after all where ships go hit each other and die.
Merely a flesh wound!
Again? What is the US Navy's problem?
>10 Sailors Missing After U.S. Destroyer Collides With Oil Tanker Off Singapore
Burger please, being pulverised is not even a flesh wound anymore.
What the fuck man. We din do nuthin to you.
Maybe it's some kind of unspoken rule for American naval commanders to have others evade them and not the other way around
The world is now getting a taste at how truly incompetent our military is. The reason why the US military is so mighty is because of the tech and numbers, Kinda like an advanced version of the Soviet army - worthless, but it's strength comes from its numbers.
Like the empire in Star Wars?
Makes sense...look at Vietnam. A load of rice farmers using guerrilla tactics prevented our victory.
Butthurt Mudslime/Russkie/chink with a proxy spotted.
You know it's true. Stop lying to yourself
Flesh wound is from the sailor flesh strewn across the cruiser's hull
Dangerous though. Oil tankers and cargo ships are so massive, it's impossible for them to suddenly change course.
because they're:
>fat; and
>stupid
I remember reading about the difference between american and australian troops in vietnam
the australians had been through malaya and new guinea and knew all about SEA jungle fighting and apparently would instigate the vast majority of firefights they entered into. the americans instead would walk around with radios blaring out rock music while talking loudly with each other and then would get surprised when some chink started shooting at them
They have thicker hulls than these modern warships too, so will cut through them like butter.
Americans in general, shit were we ignorant about the Third World in those days. It's not like we'd been a colonial power like Britain and France to know anything of significance about Laos or Nigeria. It was just like "Uh, it's some mudhole in the jungle and people walk around in loincloths with bones in their nose...I think."
Australians could probably handle the tropical climate better, some kid drafted from Wisconsin didn't know jungle or heat/humidity/giant spiders so well.
>the americans instead would walk around with radios blaring out rock music while talking loudly with each other and then would get surprised when some chink started shooting at them
Not to mention the disrespect shown for local culture by using Buddhist shrines as sleeping quarters and keeping stacks of Playboys in them.
Inb4 why are white s so stoopid and racist?
Australia your own carrier HMAS Melbourne chopped up two destroyers too then burned its own aircraft and sold to China.
I was confused and I thought they were talking about some follow ups of this incident:
US Navy destroyer collision near Japan: 7 sailors missing
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That was a cargo ship,early this year was running into Japan, the one in S. Korea was a fishing boat and this time a tanker.
Who is next on truck list? Oil platform? Supertanker? Lighthouse?
Nah, none of those. Probably a coral reef again.
>Empire gives troops super advanced expensive white armor
>soldiers still die from a single shot
Sounds like the US alright!
Actually troops in the modern world die less often.
Are you planning on trashing all the Arleigh Burke to revive the Zumwalt programme?
>A load of rice farmers using guerrilla tactics prevented our victory.
A load of rice farmers being entirely funded by the soviet union and China at the same time.
And lets not forget that the USSR suffered the same fate in Afghanistan. Guerrilla tactics and insurgency's effectiveness are often the downfalls of many military conquests, it's the reason the US mainland today is entirely invulnerable to conventional attack.
I wish. The new batch of Arleigh Burkes will be even less capable than the Zumwalts and it will cost us a lot too. Stupid Congress thinking it was cheaper.
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>Guerrilla tactics and insurgency's effectiveness are often the downfalls of many military conquests
The Vietcong were completely demolished in the Tet Offensive, after that there was only the regular NVA.
Those dang gooks shouldn't have been on the waters of the United States of America in the first place
Most conscripts in Vietnam were poor white trash from the South and Appalachia, regions of the US left behind by the postwar economic boom. A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.
Just like the Taliban were demolished in 2001. Huh, it's almost as if you can't kill an ideal.
We didn't invade North Vietnam, LBJ and McNamara thought the Chinese would come in like they did in Korea. However, this was unlikely for several reasons.
>China was engulfed in the Cultural Revolution
>the PLA was in poor fighting readiness in the mid-1960s with low morale and soldiers going hungry from lack of food
>most of them had no combat experience unlike the tens of thousands of men who'd fought the KMT and Japanese in 1950
>the Sino-Vietnamese border was not as strategically sensitive or close to industry or populated areas as the Sino-Korean border
>the border region was hilly, it would be very hard for the PLA to get troops into this area and supply them with their primitive logistics
just some friendly sea banter
What's going on with our fucking Navy these days? Again? how are we supposed to be ready for a war North Korea if our Navy is becoming a laughingstock of the world?
Name 1 ideal America hasn't killed.
>What's going on with our fucking Navy these days?
Still shaking off the damage done to readiness and morale by the previous president.
Too much anime, all the accidents are the 7th fleet in Japan. You need to take away all their PS4 too for good measure.
We could have eliminated the present problem with North Korea had MacArthur not been the king of all morons and invited a giant Chinese horde to come and route him back south of the 38th parallel.
>gooks
But that tanker is Liberian.
MacArthur should have stopped after he'd taken Pyongyang and prepared a defensive line to stop the Chinese in their tracks. After all, North Korea was completely beaten, we'd taken their capital and Kim Il Sung had fled off north with his government. The winter was coming anyway, how dumb do you have to be to think pressing into the mountains up there in November was a good idea.
It might also have been good to not press too close to the Yalu and antagonize China. We should have left a 100 mile or so buffer zone in the northern third of the Korean Peninsula.