"If attacked, sink in place."
A burst from a Phalnx would have ended that behavior.
Fun too!!!
A Fencer? Too bad we didn’t have any F-8U Crusaders to scramble.
Was the Phalanx broken?
This reminds me of the destroyer that took an Exocet from an Iraqi A-4.
The Captain though the airplane wasn’t a threat, until it was too late.
And we wouldn’t make passes if a Russian ship sailed into the Gulf and started patrolling our coastline?
What would we do if Putin decided to sink it? Have Obama or his carefully selected military leaders made any plans for what they would do in response?
You don’t make a provocative move like that—sending a warship into what are basically Russian waters, whatever the international legal position may be—without having backup plans. But it seems very unlikely that Obama’s jerks have made any such plans.
It's remarkably telling behavior
Just rubbing our face in Obama’s arrogant incompetence
A friend in the Navy during Carter and Reagan told me that under Carter Syrian jets would break the sound barrier as hey passed between and below the two high points on his ship. It caused damage and broken ear drums. Under Reagan he said nobody’s planes even came close.
Nobody fears a Democrat.
Back when the Berlin Wall went down I warned people the Soviet Union was not dead by any stretch of the imagination. Some officers of higher rank actually got mad at me for saying such things.
The Russians kept up their R&D on their nuclear weapons as we paid them billions of dollars to decommission their old ones. They used the money saved to design newer weapons and now that a total train wreck of a pResident has been in office they are acting almost exactly as I predicted. It is too bad that when I made those predictions I was only a Captain and now most of the flag officers are leftist political hacks who value their positions more than our Country and the Marxist in the White Hut really wants to turn the United States into a worthless third world country.
Why?...................Because they can...........................
Open up that internal weapons storage and see whats in it. Unarmed my rear.
If it had been a carrier some F18 Hornets would have been on his butt lighting him up.
Absolutely no reason for us to have a ship there. It’s taunting and stupid.
We should pray for everyone serving in our armed forces. We have a clueless metrosexual community organizer as commander in chief. A fool who that is placing those in uniform at risk.
Hope the skipper of the “USS Cook” watches those Turkish shipping channels. Already had 1 captain relieved this spring for plowing mud in Turkey during the Sochi Olympic Games.
Our response: The Russians are unprofessional. So there....
But there are eyewitness accounts of the pilot yelling, "Don't worry - I'm a good & sincere Christian!". So, I think it may have been Putin.