The destroyer USS Mastin.
“OSINT-1 released a satellite instant photo on the 26th, after the identification of the ship was completed, the Liaoning (No. 1) can be seen off the eastern part of Taiwan near the Miyako Strait, with its Liaoning carrier battle group 054A flechette frigate, 052D flechette destroyer, 055 flechette destroyer and Type 901 integrated supply ship. The U.S. Burke-class destroyer (No. 6) was inserted into the group.
The image of the captain of the USS Mustin, a Burke-class destroyer, “crossing his legs” to monitor the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning from close range was revealed and caused a lot of controversy. However, what is even more shocking is that last night (26th), OSINT-1, which specializes in monitoring the movement of warships, tweeted a live satellite photo, revealing that the USS Mustin drove straight into the Liaoning aircraft carrier battle group. “The USS Mastin not only “jumped the queue” but also followed closely behind the Liaoning all the way. The satellite photo was immediately shared on various social media platforms with comments.
The Liaoning carrier group is located off the eastern coast of Taiwan, near the Miyako waterway.
According to the satellite photo released by OSINT-1 on the 26th, after the identification of the ships, the Liaoning was located off the eastern coast of Taiwan near the Miyako waterway in the evening of the 26th, and the escort vessels of the Liaoning carrier battle group, including the Type 052D missile destroyer, Type 054A missile frigate, Type 055 missile destroyer, and the Type 055 missile destroyer, as well as the Liaoning carrier battle group. The Type 055 missile destroyer and the Type 901 integrated supply ship “Hulun Lake”.
In the satellite positioning photo, it can be seen that the U.S. Burke class destroyer blended into the Liaoning carrier battle group and “jumped the queue” before the Type 901 integrated supply ship, following closely behind the Liaoning, while the Type 901 integrated supply ship was left at the end of the line and could not keep up with the ships ahead.
Taiwan’s military fans also shared the post and photos on Facebook, and netizens laughed and said, “Are the US forces going to follow the ship all the way to Shanghai or Qingdao? The posting and photos were shared by netizens, who laughed and said, “Is the U.S. Navy going to follow us all the way to Shanghai or Qingdao?”, “The supply ship can’t keep up!”, “There might be a U.S. nuclear submarine under the water, too. “Just to follow you to swim in the South China Sea”.
The U.S. Army previously released a photo of the captain of the USS Muscatine “stilting” to monitor the Liaoning aircraft carrier formation at close range in early April, which sparked heated debate on social media platforms; it was later rumored that Japanese Self Defense Force ships were also monitoring the area.
The U.S. Navy website released a photo on April 4 of the USS Mastin SHIELD monitoring the Liaoning aircraft carrier in the Philippine Sea. Captain Robert J. Briggs and Vice Admiral Richard D. Slye of the U.S. Burke-class destroyer USS Mustin (DDG-89) monitor the surface conditions of contact with the other ship in the Philippine Sea.
OSINT (Open Source Intelligence), an acronym for Open Source Intelligence, is an intelligence gathering tool of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that seeks and obtains valuable intelligence from a variety of publicly available information sources.
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