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The Chapres Incident was a standoff between the French Empire and Chinese Empire in April 1993, when the submarine VNI Chapres of the Marine Imperiale entered Chinese territorial waters and encountered a contingent of fellow Chinese ships and submarines off the southern Chinese coast. The Chapres, using a new experimental satellite tracking system, was in fact hundreds of miles away from where the satellite said they should have been - namely, off of the Mekong delta, which caused confusion.

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  • The Chapres Incident was a standoff between the French Empire and Chinese Empire in April 1993, when the submarine VNI Chapres of the Marine Imperiale entered Chinese territorial waters and encountered a contingent of fellow Chinese ships and submarines off the southern Chinese coast. The Chapres, using a new experimental satellite tracking system, was in fact hundreds of miles away from where the satellite said they should have been - namely, off of the Mekong delta, which caused confusion.
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  • The Chapres Incident was a standoff between the French Empire and Chinese Empire in April 1993, when the submarine VNI Chapres of the Marine Imperiale entered Chinese territorial waters and encountered a contingent of fellow Chinese ships and submarines off the southern Chinese coast. The Chapres, using a new experimental satellite tracking system, was in fact hundreds of miles away from where the satellite said they should have been - namely, off of the Mekong delta, which caused confusion. The incident was noteworthy in that it was one the narrowest avoidances of nuclear armed conflict in world history - the Chinese had demonstrated in the past their willingness to deploy atomic bombs, as their two detonations against Burmese forces in 1976's Burmese War had shown. The captain of the Chapres, Gerard Etanieu, voted against engaging Chinese vessels despite the assurances of his crew that the French vessel was being aggressed against. Two of the Chinese submarines, SV-3 and SV-7, were armed with nuclear missiles and the captains of both ships went on record after the Chinese government acknowledged the incident in 1996 as to saying that they would absolutely have fired their warheads at French targets in the region had the Chapres engaged them.
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