According to several Russian media outlets, Russian Navy Su-24 Fencer jets “forced” a U.S. Navy destroyer to head towards neutral waters after it was noticed by Russian Black Sea monitoring stations heading into Russia’s territorial waters.
Reportedly, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Ross was heading directly towards Russian waters after leaving the Romanian port of Costanta. Russian Su-24s were scrambled towards the warship.
After the close encounter with the Su-24 jets, the destroyer “then turned around and left for neutral waters,” says RT, suggesting an unlikely violation of the Russian territorial waters by the U.S. warship.
“It seems that the Americans did not forget the April 2014 incident when one Su-24 actually shut down all equipment on the new USS Donald Cook American destroyer with anti-missile system elements,” an unnamed source said to Sputnik News.
The mysterious source refers to the April 2014 incident when a Su-24 Fencer flew multiple passes at 500 feet above sea level, within 1,000 yards of the USS Donald Cook, the U.S. Navy destroyer operating in the Black Sea at that time: a behaviour that the ship commander considered “provocative and inconsistent with international agreements.”
Following the incident, speculations (fueled by propaganda) reported that the Su-24 jammed all the systems aboard USS Cook to such an extent all the onboard screens went black and 27 officers resigned as a consequence of the attack: a quite unbelievable and unlikely story.
Anyway, Russian Su-30s and Su-24s aircraft from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet launched from Novofedorvka, an airbase captured on Mar. 22, 2014, in western Crimea peninsula 70 kilometres north of Sevastopol, have conducted attack runs on NATO warships operating in the Black Sea recently.
Image credit: Andrey Zinchuv/Airforce.ru and U.S. Navy
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Our thoughts exactly!
"Isn't this the same Aviationist that published Bill Sweetman's speculation last summer that a Ukrainian Su-25 shooting down any airliner is impossible because a Ukrainian pilot can't put on his oxygen mask above 15,000 feet and the Su-25 cockpit isn't pressurized?"
No.
Funny how that Russian military technology never seems to work when used by their former client states.
If they must make stuff up why not go all the way and throw in UFO's, unicorns and Morla from the Neverending story.
Oh boy does your rant seem real stoopid lookin
Starting to think the Russian state propaganda machine is losing it's finesse. Either that or the Russian population are now so brainwashed that they'll actually believe this sort of thing. This story is less likely to be true than the Su-24 pilots getting lost and asking the USS Ross for directions.
here is the video of the su-24 viewed from the USS Ross DDG71, looks like one ID pass on starboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jno04lAG6D4
and for the russian and european audience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suG9xKBcVxg
propaganda is sometimes fun to watch :)
That still does not matter, my point is that the US will go whereever it pleases, just as Russia will.
Who shot down KAL007, out of curiosity?
And how much are you being paid to troll?
This is silly. A Russian missile commander would only need to push a couple of buttons and a hypersonic anti-ship missile would send the US destroyer to the bottom of the sea. No need to buzz the destroyer with a jet.