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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Australia’s Poseidon Spies On China Warships, But Quickly Complains When The Chinese Navy Retaliated With A Laser



Australia’s Poseidon Spies On China Warships, But Quickly Complains When The Chinese Navy Retaliated With A Laser


When China sent two warships – Type 052D destroyer “Hefei” and Type 071 amphibious ship “Jinggangshan” – to deliver aid to Tonga and the Solomon Islands, they had to sail through the Arafura Sea between New Guinea and Australia. The Chinese Navy also knew that the Australian military would not let them pass by without some sort of surveillance or tracking.



After all, the relations between both countries are at its lowest. As expected, Australia sent a P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft to spy on the Chinese ships. The Boeing-made military surveillance plane was designed to operate in anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare. But the Chinese warships were ready with a simple retaliation option – laser beam.



On Monday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison went ballistic, demanding Beijing to explain the “dangerous” and “reckless” act of using a laser to “illuminate” the Australian Poseidon. The United States’ “deputy sheriff” in the Asia-Pacific region has even demanded a full investigation over the laser incident, after releasing photographs of the Chinese vessels sailing close to Australia’s north coast.



However, China has defended its action. As if telling the Morrison to stop crying like a baby in the game, China said Australia’s version of story was half-baked at best. Beijing accused Canberra of dropping a Sonobuoy, a sonar device used to detect submarines, near the Chinese ships – suggesting that a submarine was escorting the Chinese vessels on its journey.



The Chinese defence ministry has similarly released its own photos, accusing that it was Australia who demonstrated provocative behaviour when the Poseidon spy plane flew as close as 4 kilometres from the Chinese warships on February 17, forcing it to fire up laser beam as a warning. Beijing had insisted that its vessels abided by international law.



Not only Morrison, mad and furious, has condemned the Chinese Navy as unprofessional, but also accused China of being a bully. Beijing said Canberra was unhappy that China was providing help to other countries near Australia, hence was finding ways to discredit China. It also mocked how Australia’s largest warship, the HMAS Adelaide, suffered power failures when conducting humanitarian operations in Tonga.



China also lectured Australia that it was a normal procedure for a warship to use a laser range finder if an aircraft got to close to a vessel. In fact, all modern warships are equipped with lasers. However, it’s also true that pointing a laser is also an act of “painting a target” before firing a weapon. That explains why it had terrified the Aussie Poseidon as it could not tell whether it was about to be shot down.




Hilariously, China has taken a page out of the U.S. playbook when it said the Chinese warships were sailing in international waters. The U.S. always claims that its warships were conducting a freedom of navigation in the South China Sea when criticized by China. While Australia has accused China of sailing within its exclusive economic zone, it did not respond militarily as if there had been an intrusion.



Of course, the Chinese was sending a message with its warships in the Australian backyard. Canberra is not the only one who knows how to send warships or submarines to the South China Sea to provoke Beijing. China can likewise send its assets to the nearby Australian waters and threaten its national security. In truth, Canberra has no one to blame but itself.



AUKUS, the latest trilateral military alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, was a foolish move that provided the justification for the Chinese to allocate more resources to target Australia. The Aussie’s decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines have also increased military tension between both countries, so much so China sees Australia as a threat.



The latest act of using military-grade laser to irritate the Australian Air Force could be done to test the military response from the land Down Under. As the Chinese Navy becomes bigger in size, Australia has presented itself as the testing ground as China expands its naval capabilities beyond its claims in the South China Sea. This is not the first time the Aussie has been blinded by laser.



In 2019, Australian navy pilots claim that they were forced to land their helicopters after lasers were aimed at them during a military exercise over the South China Sea. However, Canberra could not determine if the lasers originated from Chinese fishing boats were accidentally unleashed by startled fishermen or if they were part of a coordinated move to disrupt the Australian exercise.



While a military grade laser could destroy radar equipment and blind the aircraft’s pilot, China has reportedly developed “Star Wars” laser weapons. Lasers could be used to disable or shoot down air-to-air missiles or even destroy aircraft or ballistic missiles, depending on how powerful the laser is. Last year, the U.S. expressed its concerns over China and Russia’s laser weapons and electronic jammers.


23 comments:

  1. Blinding the pilot of a surveilling aircraft passively shadowing by means of lasers could be tantamount to an act of war.

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    1. Blurred mfer, check maritime surveillance protocol before u fart!

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    2. Spying on others is already an act of war to begin with.

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    3. "Spying on others is already an act of war to begin with."
      Peter is such a naive idiot.

      China is the King of Spying all over the world.
      China's large transport plane is a carbon copy of the C-17
      The China J-20 is carbon copy of the F-35.

      By that standard China already declared war on the USA

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    4. Monster, show us how China's large transport plane (Chubby Girl) is a carbon copy of the C-17?

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    5. Also show us the similarities between J-20 and the US F-35?

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    6. https://mobile.twitter.com/Vatican6Titan/status/611210536601145344/photo/1

      China Y-20 vs USA C-17.
      remove the markings and paintwork, and you would have to be real hardcore aviation fan to be able to recognise which is which.

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    7. https://images.app.goo.gl/iSsJo9TzxZS7eyr19

      USA F-35 vs China J-20.
      Again, remove the markings and the paintwork, the main remaining difference is j-20 has additional front Canard winglets.

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    8. To this Yankee asslicker, everything China has achieved is stealing/copying from its idols!

      Wakakakakaka…

      "the King of Spying all over the world"!!!

      Ooop… tell that to Merkel, Macron & many of US allies all-over the world.

      Maybe in yr f*cking dream, these were not spying but friendly eavesdropping for their 'safety' considerations!

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    9. Whatever you claimed about China planes, spying is an act of war to begin with and you were caught re-handed. Proof your claim, don't just persist with the lies like the Huawei lie, 4 years on, still a lie.

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    10. remove this and that, and with your biased imaginations, every plane on earth will resemble an American plane, wakakaka

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    11. Airbus made a clean-sheet design for the A320, and it certainly never be mistaken for a 737.

      Similarly, a Rafael will never be mistaken for a F-15 or F-35.

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    12. Wakakakaka…

      AGAIN, parading yr know-nothingness!

      Why all super cars, be they Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren etc look the same (almost) in appearance?

      Blurred mfer, this is due to the natural environmental constraints imposed by mother Earth!

      The designers could only do so much to overcome the CoF, G-force, manoeuvre stability etc etc using the current scientific understandings of Earth's physical environment!

      In fact, this r also the reasons why all the general purples vehicles look the same.

      Oooop… how much differences r Airbus A320 (yr clean-sheet design) not be mistaken for a Boeing 737?

      The devil's r in the detail as the saying goes!

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    13. It would be stupid to design your aeroplane with a square nose or a rectangular body. Your allegation is childish. Your spying has no standard lah.

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  2. China needs to understand that firing a laser at an aircraft is NOT "abiding by international law".

    What if Taiwan starts shining lasers at China military aircraft entering Taiwan's ADIZ ?

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    1. AGAIN, parading yr know-nothingness about "abiding by international law"!

      Wakakakaka…

      Mfer, Taiwan's (claimed) ADIZ extending & covering large part of Fujian coastal areas!

      If ever Taiwan starts shining lasers at China military aircraft entering that 'ADIZ' it would be starting the WAR for unification!

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    2. For those military enthusiasts, do check the ELF radar installation near the mountain of Wuhan. It's the superior detecting/communication ability of this installation that helps the Russian navy to mousetrap the US Virginia attacking subs within his border sea!

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    3. China will not open fire on Taiwan. If they want to be shot at they just need to 'shout' out to the world : "We now declare Taiwan as an Independent Country"

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  3. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/6/us-court-convicts-chinese-intelligence-agent-of-economic-espionage

    China spy caught red handed in act of war against USA

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    1. So, what happened to the spies from Canada who had been caught? Oz? US?

      Oooop… they were been flamed by the Commie!

      Wakakakakaka…

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    2. US also lied in alleging Saddam Hussein possessed WMD and bombed Iraq into smithereens and in the process killed millions of innocent civilians including women and children and creating many more millions of refugees. Oh .... they did show the evidence in UN too!

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  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_State_Security_(China)

    China's warlike Spy Agency

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    1. So, what is CIA? MI5/MI6?

      Ooop… they r there to protect their countries' security!

      Pariah mfer, only yr idols can have spy agency!

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