Talk:USS Mason (DDG-87)

Attacks off the coast of Yemen

Some clown updated the status of the ship as "Sank". This is not true as far as I have read. She did fire countermeasure missiles after detecting what was believed to be incoming missiles, but she is still afloat. Can somebody fix this?

Thank you, cpc65 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cpc65 (talk • contribs) 21:25, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes, the change to the status of Mason appears to have been a case of vandalism. I've corrected the article. —RP88 ^(talk) 01:32, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

"Attacks off the coast of Yemen"- Ok I am being bold- changed section name and added to it. See related section in article. it has 4 paragraphs with 11 references - many different sources to the references. Lists being attached on 3 separate days, and firing AAW missile in defense all 3 dates. Sorry - I think there is only 1 or two attack days, and probably only SAM fired in Defense on 1 day. - Ok reading reference 21 from Navy times - does seem to support firings 2 dates. Article states fired Cruise missile later at three radar sites in Houthi-held territory. That can be changed to specify BGM-109 Tomahawk. Pretty significant period in October 2016 - probably worth its own article Wfoj3 (talk) 14:09, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

There are clear videos of a claimed massive missile strike on the US Mason today. Apparently is is fake though - some missile test.

Combat in lede

In her near quarter century, she has been involved in combat only a couple of times; that is significant, and both should be reflected in the lede per wp:lede. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:916B:2E14:5815:CDAD (talk) 21:47, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

I disagree I think it is not needed in the lead and that it is recentism bias. No need to show a bias towards recent events, this is not a newspaper there is no hurry to meet press time. We can wait and see what happens and how it is viewed by history. -Dual Freq (talk) 23:05, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

There are two combat events in a quarter of a century. One was years ago. This is a combat ship. This has nothing to do with wp:recentism. That does not mean - nothing can be reported until it is many years old. Which in any case one of the events is. That's a misreading of policy. --2603:7000:2101:AA00:509E:168:C0F4:798B (talk) 00:08, 2 January 2024 (UTC)