The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced
By MATTHEW HICKLEY
Last updated at 00:13 10 November 2007
Translation by Autumnson Blog
When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.
當美國海軍部署一作戰艦隊演習，它需要它的航母有非常認真的安全。
At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders.
至少有一打的軍艦提供一實體守衛，儘管那世界的唯一軍事超級大國的技術奇才，提供一幢隱形的屏障，去檢測和阻止任何入侵者。
That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory.
那就是理論上的說法，抑或是，曾是理論上的說法。
Uninvited guest: A Chinese Song Class submarine, like the one that sufaced by the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk不速之客：一架中國宋級潛艇，像那架被小鷹號航母上水的
American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.
美國軍方的領導已被遺下目瞪口呆，被一沒被發現的中國潛艇，突然彈出在一最近的太平洋演習中心，和貼近巨大的小鷹號 - 一艘 1,000英尺的超級航母，上有4,500名人員。
By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.
在它浮出水面的時候，那一百六十英尺的宋級柴電攻擊潛艇被理解是已航行在可行的範圍，足以對航母發射魚雷或導彈。
According to senior Nato officials the incident caused consternation in the U.S. Navy.
根據北約高級官員，事件在美國海軍引起恐慌。
The Americans had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication, or that it posed such a threat.
One Nato figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik" - a reference
美國人不知道中國的快速成長潛艇艦隊，已經達到這樣一種複雜性的水平，或者它構成這樣一種威脅。一位北約人物說，影響是“那麼大的衝擊，有如俄羅斯發射人造衛星” - 一項引用
Battle stations: The Kitty Hawk carries 4,500 personnel戰鬥站：小鷹號携帶 4,500名人員
The lone Chinese vessel slipped past at least a dozen other American warships which were supposed to protect the carrier from hostile aircraft or submarines.
And the rest of the costly defensive screen, which usually includes at least two U.S. submarines, was also apparently unable to detect it.
According to the Nato source, the encounter has forced a serious re-think of American and Nato naval strategy as commanders reconsider the level of threat from potentially hostile Chinese submarines.
It also led to tense diplomatic exchanges, with shaken American diplomats demanding to know why the submarine was "shadowing" the U.S. fleet while Beijing pleaded ignorance and dismissed the affair as coincidence.
Analysts believe Beijing was sending a message to America and the West demonstrating its rapidly-growing military capability to threaten foreign powers which try to interfere in its "backyard".
The People's Liberation Army Navy's submarine fleet includes at least two nuclear-missile launching vessels.
Its 13 Song Class submarines are extremely quiet and difficult to detect when running on electric motors.
Commodore Stephen Saunders, editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, and a former Royal Navy anti-submarine specialist, said the U.S. had paid relatively little attention to this form of warfare since the end of the Cold War.
He said: "It was certainly a wake-up call for the Americans.
"It would tie in with what we see the Chinese trying to do, which appears to be to deter the Americans from interfering or operating in their backyard, particularly in relation to Taiwan."
In January China carried a successful missile test, shooting down a satellite in orbit for the first time.
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