Posted on 11/12/2014 10:56:19 AM PST by Lazamataz
The State Department acknowledged that the crew of the destroyer USS Donald Cook has been gravely demoralized ever since their vessel was flown over in the Black Sea by a Russian Sukhoi-24 (Su-24) fighter jet which carried neither bombs nor missiles but only an electronic warfare device.
On 10 April 2014, the USS Donald Cook entered the waters of the Black Sea and on 12 April a Russian Su-24 tactical bomber flew over the vessel triggering an incident that, according to several media reports, completely demoralized its crew, so much so that the Pentagon issued a protest [1].
The USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is a 4th generation guided missile destroyer whose key weapons are Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of up to 2,500 kilometers, and capable of carrying nuclear explosives. This ship carries 56 Tomahawk missiles in standard mode, and 96 missiles in attack mode.
The US destroyer is equipped with the most recent Aegis Combat System. It is an integrated naval weapons systems which can link together the missile defense systems of all vessels embedded within the same network, so as to ensure the detection, tracking and destruction of hundreds of targets at the same time. In addition, the USS Donald Cook is equipped with 4 large radars, whose power is comparable to that of several stations. For protection, it carries more than fifty anti-aircraft missiles of various types.
Meanwhile, the Russian Su-24 that buzzed the USS Donald Cook carried neither bombs nor missiles but only a basket mounted under the fuselage, which, according to the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta [2], contained a Russian electronic warfare device called Khibiny.
As the Russian jet approached the US vessel, the electronic device disabled all radars, control circuits, systems, information transmission, etc. on board the US destroyer. In other words, the all-powerful Aegis system, now hooked up - or about to be - with the defense systems installed on NATO’s most modern ships was shut down, as turning off the TV set with the remote control.
The Russian Su-24 then simulated a missile attack against the USS Donald Cook, which was left literally deaf and blind. As if carrying out a training exercise, the Russian aircraft - unarmed - repeated the same maneuver 12 times before flying away.
After that, the 4th generation destroyer immediately set sail towards a port in Romania.
Since that incident, which the Atlanticist media have carefully covered up despite the widespread reactions sparked among defense industry experts, no US ship has ever approached Russian territorial waters again.
According to some specialized media, 27 sailors from the USS Donald Cook requested to be relieved from active service.
Vladimir Balybine - director of the research center on electronic warfare and the evaluation of so-called "visibility reduction" techniques attached to the Russian Air Force Academy - made the following comment:
"The more a radio-electronic system is complex, the easier it is to disable it through the use of electronic warfare."
Sounds like propaganda to me. ‘Atlanticist’ is the most blatant clue.
Well maybe someone should look into that stripped screw thing. Could be a good candidate for a threat countermeasure.
Well done sailor!
There was a deadly rain of empty vodka bottles.
one of the screws was stripped and that took some time.
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Did they turn Navy ships into prisons?
Are the “F TROOP” (Pfemales, Pfairies, Pfags, Pfonies) OK?
Is BO ‘allowing’ this as part of his flexibility?
Saw where 3 USN types were ‘attacked’ in Turkey by 10 ‘youth whatevers’ who tried to put bags over the Sailors heads while shouting “Yankee go home!” (Now that is original).
Device amazing milk has curdled away from 2500 kilometers! Russki Lake is Sea of Black to war mongering Ukraine friends US Navy.
For what purpose?
To spy on the Chinese?
I never watch the news on TV. But today I turned on Fox and they reported it.
Flashed nekkid images of Hillary onto their retinas?
That is frightening.
There is a Russian intellectual/philosopher that is promoting the currently popular idea(in Russia) that has the central idea that the USA and the UK being in the water or near it differ strongly from land or earth based countries like Russia or Germany. The water based countries have strong navies and international trade. This, in their theory, leads to a corrupt unnatural society. The proper society is land based with internal trade and few “foreign” contacts.
The proponent of this idea labels the “water” society “Atlantis”. It is pretty wild reading.
Anyone old enough to remember the Cold War knows what liars and story tellers the Russians can be.
gee whiz...
we have had the ability to do that since...
1969....
only took ‘em 40 years to catch up...
now, what will really blow your mind is...
what can we do to them????
I think more likely the skipper ordered EMCON because he suspected what the Fencer-E was up to - trying to provoke in order to get painted by the fire control radar (including CIWS) and collect all sorts of data. Smart move.
Index
LMAO
Blocked their internet access?
This sounds like propaganda.
You bet.
hahaha
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