Battle Stations: A Chinese Submarine Surfaced 5 Miles From the USS Kitty Hawk Undetected in 2006. The Navy Sold the Aircraft Carrier for One Cent in 2021.

Battle Stations: A Chinese Submarine Surfaced 5 Miles From the USS Kitty Hawk Undetected in 2006. The Navy Sold the Aircraft Carrier for One Cent in 2021.

On October 26, 2006, a 2,200-ton Chinese Song-class diesel-electric submarine surfaced about five miles from the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk near Okinawa, inside the range of its 18 wake-homing torpedoes, and nobody in a screen of roughly a dozen warships, an attack submarine and anti-submarine helicopters knew it was there until a surveillance flight saw it on the surface. A $100 million boat had closed on an 80,000-ton carrier with 5,000 s…