Russia beating up USA warship
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How far away?
1,000 yards and 500 ft! - That's well within the guidelines used by a shrinking airforce near you which used to fly Maritime Patrol aircraft.
To be fair I do have photos of RAF Jaguars significantly closer to Soviet Navy ships - back in the days when Kriegsmarine Starfighters would overfly the Baltic Sea AGI at Mach 1.
And ... among others, photos of Soviet Navy May's lifting their wings to avoid the masts of Royal Navy Frigates.
Yes this sort of thing does go on ...
Let's just hope we don't have another case of 'AGEIS Arrogance' and the jolly yankee sailors just enjoy the show.
To be fair I do have photos of RAF Jaguars significantly closer to Soviet Navy ships - back in the days when Kriegsmarine Starfighters would overfly the Baltic Sea AGI at Mach 1.
And ... among others, photos of Soviet Navy May's lifting their wings to avoid the masts of Royal Navy Frigates.
Yes this sort of thing does go on ...
Let's just hope we don't have another case of 'AGEIS Arrogance' and the jolly yankee sailors just enjoy the show.
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Courtney Mil, we have a VERY different view on the latest events, and I wouldn't like to get into a long and useless discussion, but what I really see is Russia and US trying to show their muscles. US warship in Black Sea, what's that??? Why no russian warships near US border? Nevertheless, being somehow distant from military subjects, I do really consider this a kind of a show. Hope there are some clever people to prevent further escalation.
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Nothing new in US Navy vessels in the Black Sea. It is freedom of navigation. Romania and Bulgaria and Turkey are also NATO members and the US Navy regularly conduct exercises and drills in the Black Sea. US Navy also exercise and make port visits to Ukraine and Georgia.
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US warship in Black Sea, what's that???
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My BIL was helping drive the Vulcan passing the Kiev (?) with the assorted chaff/flares going off. I think there's a colour copy of that in his Study
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Nothing new in US Navy vessels in the Black Sea. It is freedom of navigation. Romania and Bulgaria and Turkey are also NATO members and the US Navy regularly conduct exercises and drills in the Black Sea.
Its gone on for 50 years. The secret is not to take it too far.
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US warship in Black Sea, what's that??? Why no russian warships near US border?
Cr@p how far have the Russian Navy and Airforce fallen if they regard one p!ss ant destroyer as a huge build up.
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The Russians like to think the Black sea belongs to them, regardless of the the law. Thats why they make this big build up of American forces bullsh!t they are playing at home.
That's why they start this bullsh!t.
a) Sailing a solitary, unsupported warship in international waters
b) Fomenting unrest in a neighbouring state on the basis of unsubstantiated (and almost certainly false) threats of ethnic cleansing as a pretext to proxy invasion using suspiciously well-equipped and uniformly-dressed local 'militias', while repeating the story on national media until even Putin himself believes it!
No sign yet of any Russian-marked vehicles in eastern Ukraine. Anyone care to speculate on the fate of the commander whose unit omitted to delete their markings before going onto the streets of Crimea?
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Anyone care to speculate on the fate of the commander whose unit omitted to delete their markings before going onto the streets of Crimea?