Chinese Submarine's Simulated Missile Attack On The USS Reagan Risked A Real Naval Shootout

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Washington Free Beacon: Chinese Submarine Practised Missile Attack on USS Reagan

Cruise missile targeting of carrier risked naval shootout.

A Chinese attack submarine conducted a simulated cruise missile attack on the aircraft carrier USS Reagan during a close encounter several weeks ago, according to American defense officials.

The targeting incident near the Sea of Japan in October violated China’s 2014 commitment to the multinational Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea, known as CUES, designed to reduce the risk of a shooting incident between naval vessels, said officials familiar with details of the encounter they described as “serious.”

WNU Editor: I can only imagine the stress levels on the USS Reagan when all of this was happening.