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 massive missile strike on the US Mason today. Large explosion and clearly will be significant damage. If it stays afloat.

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)