ASEAN Joint Patrols in the South China Sea?

[hans]

But the LCS can only see 30-50 KM on sea.
Beyond that, ships are below horizon and can not be attacked.
You have to find something to guide NSM for long range attack.
The biggest problem of anti ship missile range is not the fuel, but how to detect the enemy..

NSM has the range 185km, it's good.

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

NSM has the range 185km, it's good.

Assuming it hit, also why bring the US? This is about ASEAN joint patrol.

 

[pr1v4t33r]

If US do join the patrol, they will patrol the south part of SCS, together with INA, MY and SING.

Essay: U.S. Should Consider Establishing a South China Sea International Operations Center in Indonesia - USNI News

 

[BoQ77]

USS Fort Worth, a US Navy Freedom-class littoral combat ship, had a run-in with the Yancheng, a PLA Navy Type 054A guided-missile frigate, during its patrol over the disputed Spratly islands on May 11, according to the Beijing-based Sina Military Network.

A seven-day patrol mission was carried out by the US Navy over the disputed waters of the South China Sea from the American naval facility in Singapore. The movements of the USS Fort Worth were closely monitored by Yancheng when it navigated into the Spratly waters near the fourth largest island in the chain. During the confrontation, USS Fort Worth radioed the Yancheng to remind the PLA ship that it was operating in international waters.

The frigate ignored the message and continued to follow the USS Fort Worth until it left the waters, currently under the administration of Beijing. In addition to the vessel itself, the US ship was carrying a MQ-8B unmanned aerial vehicle and a MH-60 helicopter on board. However, a littoral combat ship would not have the firepower to engage a guided-missile frigate like Yancheng.

 

[70U63]

We don't have to joint patrols, what's the point? Waste of resources.
Information sharing is sufficient.

But before that, all the countries involved in the dispute should just sit down and talk, instead of keep barking and try to pull other parties to join the gang to make the issue more complicated. 'Talk' shxt all day long and get nothing done in the end.

Wait, my mistake.
The joint patrol is for the lower end of South China Sea with piracy issue.

Some journalists just want to use this opportunity to link this with the SCS dispute issue.

 

[BoQ77]

But the LCS can only see 30-50 KM on sea.
Beyond that, ships are below horizon and can not be attacked.
You have to find something to guide NSM for long range attack.
The biggest problem of anti ship missile range is not the fuel, but how to detect the enemy..

I guess you don't see this

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

We don't have to joint patrols, what's the point? Waste of resources.
Information sharing is sufficient.

But before that, all the countries involved in the dispute should just sit down and talk, instead of keep barking and try to pull other parties to join the gang to make the issue more complicated. 'Talk' shxt all day long and get nothing done in the end.

This is for patrolling against pirate.

 

[pr1v4t33r]

This is for patrolling against pirate.

Plus illegal fishing, smuggling and trafficking

 

[70U63]

Kidnapping again (in Sabah)...
Gunmen kidnap restaurant manager and customer in Sabah, AsiaOne Malaysia News

KOTA KINABALU - About 100 customers were sent scurrying when four gunmen - one brandishing an automatic rifle with ammunition strapped to his chest and another armed with a pistol - burst into the popular Ocean King Seafood Restaurant by Sandakan seafront and took two people hostage.


The gunmen grabbed female restaurant manager Thien Yoke Fun, 50, and Bernard Chen Ted Fen, 36, a tourist from Sarawak, before speeding off in a boat after the 7.30pm raid. Chen was sitting at the table closest to the sea while Thien was taken from the counter. The raid lasted less than a minute.

 

[TaiShang]

Once the construction of the SCS islands of China is completed, the ASEAN patrol ships are welcome to utilize the facilities there, as has been told by China recently.

 

[biendong]

Where is the 054A behind it??

It is too far away.

 

[Reashot Xigwin]

It is too far away.

That's close!

 

[biendong]

That's close!

 

[hans]

It is not polite to follow too close a military ship.
they will feel threatened ...

It is too far away.

 

[biendong]

It is not polite to follow too close a military ship.
they will feel threatened ...

YA,

Chinese is very intelligent toward US, we know it.