中美舰艇在苏比克湾发生碰撞(转)

据今天早上TVB的新闻报道，星期四一艘中国潜艇在苏克比湾附近海域和一艘美国军舰拖带的声纳装置发生碰撞，来自美军的消息说声纳装置受损，美军军舰没有事，中国潜艇情况是否受损情况不明。

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/0 ... x.html?iref=24hours
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55C00220090613

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/12/china.submarine/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In what a U.S. military official calls an "inadvertent encounter," a Chinese submarine hit an underwater sonar array being towed by the destroyer USS John McCain on Thursday.

The USS John S. McCain, left, anchored at the port of Incheon 40 km west of Seoul, Korea in March 2004.
The array was damaged, but the sub and the ship did not collide, the official said. A sonar array is a radar towed behind a ship that listens and locates underwater sounds.

The incident occurred near Subic Bay off the coast of the Philippines.

The official, who declined to be named because the incident had not been made public, would not say whether the U.S. ship knew the submarine was that close to it.

However, the Navy does not believe this was a deliberate incident of Chinese harassment, as it would have been extremely dangerous had the array gotten caught in the submarine's propellers.

The Navy has complained in the past that Chinese vessels, including fishing boats, have deliberately tried to disrupt U.S. naval activities in international waters near China. In one widely publicized incident in March, five Chinese vessels maneuvered close enough to the USNS Impeccable to warrant the use of a fire hose by the unarmed American vessel to avoid a collision. The Navy later released video of that incident.
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