[Magnatron]

This kind of stuff happened all the time back in the early eighties in the Indian Ocean — except in those days we were harassed by Russian Krivak destroyers.

Like the Russians were then, the Chinese are just keeping up the tension, and probing our reactions. We couldn’t do much then but perform collision avoidance, and I’m thinking we can’t do much more — and likely even less — now.

[steelhead_trout]

“This kind of stuff happened all the time back in the early eighties in the Indian Ocean — except in those days we were harassed by Russian Krivak destroyers.”

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I remember hearing about something like that in 1979. But it was in the Black Sea, which the Soviets considered their “lake.” We sent in a task force to demonstrate that the Black Sea was international waters. It was buzzed by aircraft and shadowed by warships, no douubt engaging in mock attacks. But it was never actually harmed.