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出师未捷先内讧！英国核潜艇赴叙利亚却遭西班牙拦截

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根据英国媒体2018年9月20日的报道，其一艘特拉法尔加级攻击型核潜艇当天离开位于直布罗陀的母港，准备前往地中海东部区域。这艘攻击型核潜艇叫天才号，由于最近两天叙利亚的紧急事态，英国此举带有明显为以色列撑腰的意图。然而当护航的港口船只还没有离开的时候，一艘西班牙的巡逻艇却突然逼近天才号，造成现场骤然紧张。英国担心它的行动会危及到天才号攻击型核潜艇，护航的船只随即发射曳光弹进行警告射击。通常情况下，对手才会这样干，而英国和西班牙则是长期的盟友。（图片来源：云上的空母）


出师未捷先内讧！英国核潜艇赴叙利亚却遭西班牙拦截

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根据英国媒体2018年9月20日的报道，其一艘特拉法尔加级攻击型核潜艇当天离开位于直布罗陀的母港，准备前往地中海东部区域。这艘攻击型核潜艇叫天才号，由于最近两天叙利亚的紧急事态，英国此举带有明显为以色列撑腰的意图。然而当护航的港口船只还没有离开的时候，一艘西班牙的巡逻艇却突然逼近天才号，造成现场骤然紧张。英国担心它的行动会危及到天才号攻击型核潜艇，护航的船只随即发射曳光弹进行警告射击。通常情况下，对手才会这样干，而英国和西班牙则是长期的盟友。

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图为英国护航船只发射曳光弹，对西班牙巡逻艇实施警告射击和驱离。之所以会发生这样的情况，是因为西班牙和英国之间在直布罗陀区域有着主权争端。直布罗陀属于英国海外领土，但西班牙声称对该区域享有主权，而且这种纷争持续了300年之久。

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  为了展示对直布罗陀区域的权力，西班牙的海警船只和巡逻舰经常在区域内展示存在，而且针对的不仅仅是英国。近年来，西班牙巡逻舰曾经多次骚扰美国海军的舰艇，其中包括逼近美国的俄亥俄级弹道导弹核潜艇佛罗里达号，英国船只则对西班牙的干扰船只进行了驱离。

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因此，西班牙巡逻艇这一次逼近英国的天才号攻击型核潜艇，绝对不是一个孤立的事件，而仅仅是双方长期对峙的小小缩影。直布罗陀海峡扼守着东西方之间的咽喉，战略位置极其重要，周边国家当然对此区域垂涎欲滴，发生纷争也是必然的事情。

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图为正在出港的天才号攻击型核潜艇，我们可以看到西班牙的巡逻艇逼近到它十分近的距离之内，而英国港口的船只则展开驱离和拦截。正所谓没有永恒的盟友，只有永恒的利益，英国不仅仅同盟国西班牙有冲突，而且在今年早些时候还同法国爆发力扇贝战争。

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天才号攻击型核潜艇在离开直布罗陀之前，进行了大规模的战斧式巡航导弹装填作业。很显然，这一次它前往地中海东部海域，主要是为执行打击叙利亚境内目标的任务，这艘攻击型核潜艇最多可以搭载30枚战斧式巡航导弹。图为英国公布的天才号装弹照片，某种程度上也是给俄罗斯看的。

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有趣的是，西班牙、英国和美国之间有着非常复杂的关系，双方既在北约的框架之内展开联合行动，同时也有不少的摩擦。而在西班牙的境内，美国海军部署有宙斯盾驱逐舰，具备拦截弹道导弹的能力，可以用于抗衡共同的对手俄罗斯。

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在谈到2018年9月20日的对峙事件时，英国官方认为西班牙这样的举动是非常危险的。对于这起事件，其他北约的成员可能会进行调停，以防止西班牙和英国的对抗出现不可收拾的地步。毕竟在同俄罗斯角逐的同时，自家人打成一锅粥，只能让渔翁得利。




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Trouble flares up at Gibraltar: British Navy fires warning flare after Spanish vessel gets too close to nuclear submarine HMS Talent

• HMS Talent, a Trafalgar-class submarine, went into Gibraltar on September 8
• It was pictured being reloaded with deadly Tomahawk missiles earlier this week
• As it left port today with a patrol boat a Spanish Guarda Civil boat approached
• The accompanying craft fired a warning flare at the Spanish boat to ward it off

By George Martin For Mailonline
Published: 18:53 BST, 20 September 2018 | Updated: 20:19 BST, 20 September 2018

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The British Navy was forced to fire a warning flare at a Spanish ship today after it got too close to a nuclear submarine which had just been loaded with missiles in Gibraltar.
Dramatic pictures showed the HMS Talent, a Trafalgar-class nuclear sub, attempting to leave port on Wednesday along with a police escort.
But just after the submarine left the safety of the harbour, a patrol boat from the Spanish Guarda Civil could be seen approaching.

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The accompanying British patrol boat (left) fired a flare towards the Spanish Guarda Civil ship (right) as it approached the submarine

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The two British patrol boats including one police craft and a tug in the water next to HMS Talent
Pictures showed the police vessel firing a flare in the direction of the Spanish ship as it got closer and closer to the 'hunter killer' sub.
Eventually the Spanish ship retreated, leaving the Talent to continue on its course and exit the crowded bay of Gibraltar unscathed.
The HMS Talent sailed into Gibraltar on September 8, and was pictured reloading its missile supplies on Thursday morning.
The submarine has the capacity to carry up to 30 Tomahawk cruise missiles, capable of obliterating ground targets.
No information has been released by Royal Navy on the HMS Talent's current objectives in the Mediterranean.
'The dangerous incident today involving the departure of HMS Talent is regrettable,' Chief Minister Of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo said of the incident.

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The HMS Talent leaves port in Gibraltar with the Spanish coastal city of Algeciras visible in the distance across the bay
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The HMS Talent arrived into Gibraltar on September 8 although the Royal Navy has not said what it was doing there
'It serves to remind everyone of the importance of following the rules of navigation and recognising the respective jurisdictions that operate side by side to each other in the Bay of Gibraltar.
'The matter must be taken up at the highest levels. We are showing our ability to cooperate on something as complex as the Brexit negotiations.
'We can surely get our act together in the more prosaic matter of our respective agencies navigating the crowded waters of the Bay.'
This is not the first time the Royal Navy has been called upon to protect British sovereign territory in the region.
Earlier this year a Royal Navy ship was filmed by beachgoers intercepting a Spanish warship and dramatically chasing it back out into international waters.
HMS Sabre, part of the Gibraltar Squadron, escorted the OPV Servile P71 craft away from Gibraltar in June.

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Pictured showed the Trafalgar-class submarine being loaded up with deadly Tomahawk missiles

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Earlier this year HMS Sabre was forced to clear an unidentified Spanish warship out of British waters




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TROUBLE FLARES Royal Navy fires flare at Spanish vessel in Gibraltar after it ventures too close to nuclear submarine HMS Talent
The HMS Talent was leaving the British controlled port with a police escort when a patrol boat from the Spanish Guarda Civil approached
By Danny De Vaal and Lauren Fruen
20th September 2018, 9:44 pm
Updated: 20th September 2018, 9:59 pm
The British Navy was forced to fire a warning flare at a Spanish vessel today after it got too close to a nuclear submarine in Gibraltar.
The HMS Talent was leaving the British controlled port with a police escort when a patrol boat from the Spanish Guarda Civil approached the “hunter killer” sub which had been loaded with missiles.
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The Royal Navy was forced to fire a warning flare at a Spanish ship in Gibraltar

It has been reported the British navy were forced to act when repeated radio warnings to back off were ignored.
Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo said: “The dangerous incident today involving the departure of HMS Talent is regrettable.

“’It serves to remind everyone of the importance of following the rules of navigation and recognising the respective jurisdictions that operate side by side to each other in the Bay of Gibraltar.”
The submarine had just been loaded with Tomahawk missiles when the incident occurred, according to reports.
The sub can hold up to 30 deadly Tomahawk missiles which are capable of obliterating ground targets.
Dramatic pictures released show the moment British navy fired the flare at the approaching Spanish vessel before it retreated.

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The Spanish boat reportedly got too close to a nuclear submarine
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The HMS Talent was pictured leaving the port with an escort
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Chief Minister Of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo called it a 'dangerous incident'
It is unclear what the HMS Talent was doing in the Mediterranean but it sailed into Gibraltar on September 8.
Chief Minister Picardo added: “The matter must be taken up at the highest levels.
“We are showing our ability to cooperate on something as complex as the Brexit negotiations."
“We can surely get our act together in the more prosaic matter of our respective agencies navigating the crowded waters of the Bay.”
A Foreign Office spokesman told The Sun Online: "I can confirm that there was an incursion by a Spanish state vessel into British Gibraltar territorial waters this afternoon as a British submarine was leaving Gibraltar.
“This was challenged appropriately and will be protested to the Spanish Government.
“The Royal Navy challenges all unlawful maritime incursions into British Gibraltar territorial waters."




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The submarine was pictured being loaded up with missiles
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The Spanish ship is said to have eventually retreated

 

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Spain-UK Dispute Over Gibraltar Flares Up After Warning Shots Incident With US Nuclear Sub

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Spain-UK Dispute Over Gibraltar Flares Up After Warning Shots Incident With US Nuclear Sub



By Ryan Faith
May 9, 2016 |



In mid-April, a British fast-patrol boat, the HMS Sabre, fired warning flares across the bow of a Spanish Guardia Civil (think Coast Guard) ship. The Spanish vessel had twice cut across the bow of a visiting US nuclear submarine, the USS Florida, when the escorting British patrol boat decided enough was enough, screwing with a visiting US warship was uncalled for, and shot a few flares high and inside to brush the Spanish off.
The port of Gibraltar is a frequent stop for US submarines in need of a little maintenance work. The Florida itself sailed into Gibraltar on April 16 — and was intercepted by a Spanish vessel, resulting in the firing of warning flares. The Florida got similar treatment from Spanish customs boats as well, an encounter that also ended in the firing of warning flares. Earlier this year, Britain filed a formal protest with Spain over incursions by Spanish warships that reportedly risked the safety of a British vessel.
But this is all just part and parcel of the life and times at the wonderfully idiosyncratic outpost of Gibraltar. Gibraltar is, depending on how you look at it, either a giant rock, a tiny peninsula, or a pretty big pain in the ass. It sits at the southernmost tip of Spain, where the massive Rock of Gibraltar overlooks the very heavily used shipping lane passing from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic through (you guessed it) the Straits of Gibraltar. Morocco and the rest of Africa sit on the other side of the Straits.
The Straits are a little under nine miles wide at their narrowest point. That's narrow enough for a well-sited gun emplacement to sink any and all merchant shipping passing through. Most of the traffic is headed to or from the US and Western Europe with Middle Eastern oil and Asian manufactured goods. According to locals, a great deal of hashish is (or at least was) smuggled across the Straits in powerboats weaving their way between the cargo ships.
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Meanwhile, the Rock itself is a huge, gigantic chunk of limestone — almost 1,400 feet tall — that is essentially an immense fortress. In person, it's almost cartoonishly well suited as a fortress; as you come from the north, across the border with Spain, the rock is an immense, thousand-foot-tall cliff face pocked with firing positions and gun emplacements. The entire base of the rock is surrounded by a very tall wall and even more fortifications. Trying to take the rock by frontal assault would be, in the best possible case, a horrifically bloody and savage fight.
This turns out to be a really good thing for the residents of Gibraltar. Gibraltar was first fortified in 1106. In the last 600 years or so, it has endured 14 sieges and the occasional intense bombardment. More recently, the Spanish and British governments have been in a 300-year-long pissing match about who owns this key piece of terrain. The Brits got Gibraltar from Spain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht; that's more than a century before the US took the colony of Florida from Spain in 1822. Today, Gibraltar is counted as a British Overseas Territory.
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In the intervening three centuries since the Brits ended up with the Gibraltar, they've been digging and tunneling in like their lives depend on it (and they have, after a fashion). Today, the tunnel network inside the rock is more than 34 miles in length (it is rumored that there are even nukes stashed down there somewhere). At any rate, I'm guessing you could probably hold the rock against anything short of a nuclear attack with a pack of Boy Scouts and a couple dozen water balloons.
Moreover, its location at the mouth of the Mediterranean makes it a key naval base for ships entering or leaving the Med. The reason the Florida was stopped there in the first place is that it broke down and needed some (non-nuclear) repairs. The Florida is a nuclear-powered submarine converted from use as a nuclear missile sub to one of the US's few guided missile submarines; it carries 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles and is almost ideally suited for the task of blowing apart an enemy air-defense network in the opening hours of a war.
The comings and goings of submarines to and from the Royal Navy Base have been a bone of contention for some time. In 2013, a British submarine, the HMS Tireless, developed a leak in its coolant system and limped its way to Gibraltar for repairs. As people are inclined to do when you use "leak" and "nuclear" in the same sentence, the Spanish got pretty touchy about all this; there's no way a radioactive leak in Gibraltar wouldn't spread to Spanish waters.
Related: UK Police Admit Their Money Laundering Investigations Only Hit the 'Tip of the Iceberg'
But this belligerent back and forth actually obscures one of the more fascinating things about the whole deal: After centuries of fighting (and occasionally killing) over the rock, London is a bit less adamant (or at least rude) about keeping the Rock than the Spanish are about grabbing it.
The problem is that the residents of Gibraltar aren't buying into the Spanish plan one goddamn bit. They're proud of their status and insist that their right of self-determination matters more than what Madrid and London happen to say. In a 2002 referendum, 98.5 percent of the voting residents of the Rock rejected even joint UK-Spanish sovereignty. Propelled further by fears that London would sell Gibraltar down the river anyway (or lose it betting on horses or whatever), in 2006 the local government changed the Constitution to basically say that if anyone was going to decide who was going to have sovereignty over Gibraltar, then it damn well better be the people living there!
And so, the Spanish (for whom this remains a sore spot) keep playing silly buggers with things like being really uptight about air space and planes landing at Gibraltar's tiny airfield, or harassing intruders in or close to their territorial waters. This results in periodic episodes like the one involving the Florida. The result of these shenanigans, if anything, has been to slowly persuade London that Gibraltar might be right about these Spaniards: Who wants to hop in bed with a bunch of people who can't even keep their local law enforcement ships from playing chicken with foreign nuclear submarines?
When you get down to it, these episodes tell you a lot about national sovereignty. Spain wants Gibraltar bad. The UK hasn't (historically) shown huge amounts of interest in keeping it. But the residents apparently have a real aversion to becoming paella-loving Spaniards. Thus, the Spanish and British ships commanded by Madrid and London are fighting over an issue of sovereignty that the local residents have reserved entirely for themselves.
Or, maybe it's just that the approximately 30,000 Gibraltarians could put up a hell of a fight if anyone came in uninvited.
Follow Ryan Faith on Twitter: @Operation_Ryan
Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Correction: The story has been amended to more accurately reflect the current state of Gibraltar's sovereignty.


Topics: united kingdom, britain, gibraltar, spain, united states, uss florida, florida, hms sabre, europe, defense & security, british overseas territory

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