U.S.Carrier Nimitz due to visit Phuket.

[Antonio]

PHUKET: -- The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is due to visit Phuket on May 28, anchoring in Makham Bay off the deep sea port.



Looks like Phuket is the place to stay away from then.

[gotlost]

The tuk tuk mafia will be at it again...

[Starman]

PHUKET: -- The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is due to visit Phuket on May 28, anchoring in Makham Bay off the deep sea port.



Looks like Phuket is the place to stay away from then.

Isn't that on Wearside?

[nookiebear]

I understood the Nimitz is no longer in the waters around Asia

[gotlost]

US carrier Nimitz due to visit Phuket

PHUKET: The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is due to visit Phuket on May 28, anchoring in Makham Bay off the deep sea port.

Tanyaluk Sakoot
Friday 17 May 2013, 06:28PM

 
The USS Nimitz at sea. Photo US Navy
This will be the second time the Nimitz and its crew has visited Phuket; the last time was in 2010.

The Nimitz is currently in the seas off the Korean peninsula, stationed there in response to North Korean posturing and war threats against its neighbours and American interests – which now appear to have abated.

The nuclear-powered Nimitz is celebrating its 38th year in service. It was commissioned on May 3, 1975. It is one of the largest warships in the world, and all the numbers related to it are huge.

It displaces 100,020 tonnes, is 332.8 metres long by 76.8 metres wide, has a maximum speed of 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h), and can keep going for 20 to 25 years on one charge of nuclear fuel.

On board the ship, and getting ready to enjoy Phuket’s hospitality, are 3,200 sailors and 2,480 air wing personnel to fly and manage the 90 fixed wing aircraft and helicopters carried on board.

- See more at: http://www.thephuketnews.com/us-carrier-nimitz-due-to-visit-phuket-39457.php#sthash.Juf6rPlg.dpuf

[Antonio]

I understood the Nimitz is no longer in the waters around Asia

Do try and keep up with the news fatboy.

[Antonio]

PHUKET: -- The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is due to visit Phuket on May 28, anchoring in Makham Bay off the deep sea port.



Looks like Phuket is the place to stay away from then.

Isn't that on Wearside?

Starman 

[gotlost]

http://www.nimitz.navy.mil/

https://www.facebook.com/cvn68

https://twitter.com/USS_Nimitz

and



USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier Arrival Slammed By North Korea
Agence France Presse  |  By
Posted: 05/12/2013 5:25 am EDT  |  Updated: 05/13/2013 9:33 am EDT
 



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North Korea has criticised the arrival of the US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the South for a joint drill as an "extremely reckless" provocation and a rehearsal for war against the communist state.

A US naval strike group led by the nuclear-powered Nimitz arrived off the South's southern port of Busan Saturday for the drill to be staged this week, following joint exercises that infuriated North Korea in recent months.

The 97,000-ton Nimitz, one of the world's largest warships, will participate in joint search-and-rescue operations as well as "sea manoeuvring" around the Korean Peninsula, the South's defence ministry said.

The North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea that handles cross-border affairs called the arrival of the US fleet "a grave military provocation" that would dramatically ratchet up tension.

"The joint naval drill involving the latest weaponry including the nuclear aircraft carrier is a wanton blackmail against us and demonstrates...that their attempt to invade us has reached an extremely reckless level," it said.

"The risk of a nuclear war in the peninsula has risen further due to the madcap nuclear war practice by the US and the South's enemy forces," the committee said in a statement carried by state-run KCNA Saturday night.

The latest joint naval drill between the two allies is expected to be staged off the South's eastern coast from Monday to Tuesday, Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unnamed Seoul official.


Military tensions on the Korean peninsula have been high for months, with the North under the young leader Kim Jong-Un issuing a series of apocalyptic threats over what it sees as intensely provocative US-South joint exercises.

The friction has abated somewhat after the annual ground exercises were wrapped up at the end of April, and a US defence official said North Korea had moved two medium-range missiles off their launch pads.

North Korean troops near the disputed Yellow Sea border have been ordered to strike back if "even a single shell drops" in their territorial waters, the North's army command said in a statement last week.

Any subsequent counterstrike would trigger an escalated military reaction that would see South Korea's border islands engulfed in a "sea of flames", it said.

The tense sea border off the west coast saw deadly naval clashes in 1999, 2002 and 2009. The North shelled one of the islands, Yeonpyeong, in November 2010, killing four South Koreans and sparking brief fears of a full-scale conflict.

Copyright (2013) AFP. All rights reserved.


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[nookiebear]

I understood the Nimitz is no longer in the waters around Asia

Do try and keep up with the news fatboy.

I do try my son,,,,,,The Nimitz used to be the regular visitor to Pattaya/Lam Chabang but was replaced with a newer carrier about 6 years ago.

[Speros]

Nimitz was sent to cover Russian waters, that's why it back in Phuket.

[gotlost]

Nimitz was sent to cover Russian waters, that's why it back in Phuket.

NO Korean waters as in North Korea.

[Antonio]

Nimitz was sent to cover Russian waters, that's why it back in Phuket.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/korea/2013/05/12/378367/US-aircraft.htm

[Speros]

Nimitz was sent to cover Russian waters, that's why it back in Phuket.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/korea/2013/05/12/378367/US-aircraft.htm

[Speros]

Nimitz was sent to cover Russian waters, that's why it back in Phuket.

NO Korean waters as in North Korea.

lot of North Korean tourists I hadn't heard