Originally posted by coolant:
Kitty Hawk being hacked Episode II 
[b]The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy
exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced
By MATTHEW HICKLEY -
Last updated at 00:13am on 10th November 2007
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=492804&in_page_id=1811
When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes
the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.
At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the
technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers
an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders.
That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory.
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Uninvited guest: A Chinese Song Class
submarine, like the one that sufaced by the U.S.S. Kitty
Hawk
American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected
Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific
exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft
supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.
By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack
submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for
launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.
According to senior Nato officials the incident caused
consternation in the U.S. Navy.
The Americans had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had
reached such a level of sophistication, or that it posed such a
threat.
One Nato figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians
launching Sputnik" - a reference to the Soviet Union's first
orbiting satellite in 1957 which marked the start of the space
age.
The incident, which took place in the ocean between southern Japan
and Taiwan, is a major embarrassment for the Pentagon.
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Battle stations: The Kitty Hawk carries
4,500 personnel
The lone Chinese vessel slipped past at least a dozen other
American warships which were supposed to protect the carrier from
hostile aircraft or submarines.
And the rest of the costly defensive screen, which usually includes
at least two U.S. submarines, was also apparently unable to detect
it.
According to the Nato source, the encounter has forced a serious
re-think of American and Nato naval strategy as commanders
reconsider the level of threat from potentially hostile Chinese
submarines.
It also led to tense diplomatic exchanges, with shaken American
diplomats demanding to know why the submarine was "shadowing" the
U.S. fleet while Beijing pleaded ignorance and dismissed the affair
as coincidence.
Analysts believe Beijing was sending a message to America and the
West demonstrating its rapidly-growing military capability to
threaten foreign powers which try to interfere in its
"backyard".
The People's Liberation Army Navy's submarine fleet includes at
least two nuclear-missile launching vessels.
Its 13 Song Class submarines are extremely quiet and difficult to
detect when running on electric motors.
Commodore Stephen Saunders, editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, and a
former Royal Navy anti-submarine specialist, said the U.S. had paid
relatively little attention to this form of warfare since the end
of the Cold War.
He said: "It was certainly a wake-up call for the Americans.
"It would tie in with what we see the Chinese trying to do, which
appears to be to deter the Americans from interfering or operating
in their backyard, particularly in relation to Taiwan."
In January China carried a successful missile test, shooting down a
satellite in orbit for the first time.
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this article was a re run of the old incident.
