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Russian fighters buzz U.S. Navy - Why? Because they can
Canada Free Press ^ | 04/14/16 | Robert Laurie

Posted on 04/14/2016 9:30:34 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Thumbing their noses

If you’ve been watching the news over the course of the last 24-48 hours, you’ve no doubt seen the reports about Russian SU-24 attack planes buzzing the USS Donald Cook (DDG-75). This happened first on Monday, then again on Tuesday. At least one of the so-called “simulated attacks” saw the Russian fighters fly just 30 feet above the ship.

If you haven’t seen the footage, here you go:

The question is: Why would Putin do this?

The answer is: “Because he can.”


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: obama; russiansu24; usnavy; ussdonaldcook
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To: Kenton

Small world. We headed into Copenhagen. We were home ported out of Newport, RI.


41 posted on 04/14/2016 11:37:36 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: lacrew
2. Lock a missile radar onto the plane

I think they do this deliberately, so that we will power up our missile radars, and they can record information about them for future counter-measures.

42 posted on 04/14/2016 11:41:37 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Yes, that’s exactly what (and why) they do it. I worked in ECM in the Navy, and it was “do not power up fire control, or anything else” - but we did collect a BUNCH of stuff when they flew over (or even near, really)...


43 posted on 04/14/2016 12:42:39 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: rktman
Small world. We headed into Copenhagen. We were home ported out of Newport, RI.

Small world indeed. We also went to Copenhagen, and were were home ported in Newport. That was a great cruise.

44 posted on 04/14/2016 1:16:22 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: Kenton

LOL! Yup. Well less the 50 foot seas in the NA. ‘Specially on that DE. YIKES! We did Naples, Malta, Gulf Juan, France, Southend on Sea in England, Hamburg, Copenhagen and maybe someplace else. Dude, do you realize that was almost FIFTY years ago. WTH??????? Still kickin’ too.


45 posted on 04/14/2016 1:26:43 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman
Well, we were in all those places except England and Hamburg. Remember the Sea Hotel in Gulf Juan? It was a bordello right on the waterfront and the shore patrol station was in the back.

Remember "Pig Alley" in Naples, and "The Gut" in Valletta? Oh well, there are some things we probably shouldn't talk about here, since there are ladies present.

And yeah, we're not getting older, just saltier!

46 posted on 04/14/2016 1:47:43 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I think Trump and Putin will get along fine. The US has no reason to be enemies with Russia but we do need to command respect.


47 posted on 04/14/2016 2:05:13 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Kenton

LOL! OMG! Do I remember. We were warned not to go there so the first thing just about everybody did was head there. I think a couple of our 1st class POs got SP duty. As for the other, yeah I remember them as well (the Bluebird[?] in Naples). Saw an officer get taken for some money buying a Berretta at the water front in Naples. When he got back on the ship there was a rock inside the box. Don’t know how they did it but they were slick. We were smarter and went to the UN HQ outside of Naples and bought ours there. Yeah, better knock it off as Chief Lamp used to say. LOL! Thanks for the memories.

P.S. Imagine 300+million people in this country, how many served on that deployment and how many are on FReerepublic. Too funny.


48 posted on 04/14/2016 2:45:36 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

That’s correct. In those day, as long as there was no indication of a fire control system lock. We tracked them, but we never locked fire control on them. It was sorta the un-written rule in those day. No fire control lock, no foul. Otherwise birds free, something the Soviet pilots understood.


49 posted on 04/14/2016 4:09:17 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

LOL! They came at us low and fast and our guns couldn’t keep up as they went by. Well, gun.


50 posted on 04/14/2016 4:31:25 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Psalm 73

Sometimes they are the only US ship in the region. Token US force; not a serious threat.


51 posted on 04/14/2016 8:18:36 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Ted Cruz was the man!)
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To: rktman

Done before. In the 70s, pilots of the Royal Omani Air Force, buzzed the Constellation in the Indian Ocean. They came in so low that they had to pull up to avoid hitting the ship’s hull. Air Boss got into a lot of trouble that day.


52 posted on 04/15/2016 3:34:15 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Sean_Anthony
Like it or not, with homo as POSUS this is how the rest of the world now views our Navy:


53 posted on 04/15/2016 3:44:14 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Crump or Lose 2016)
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To: rktman
Saw an officer get taken for some money buying a Berretta at the water front in Naples. When he got back on the ship there was a rock inside the box.

OK, get ready for this. Our Senior Chief warned us to be careful of buying Berrettas, because of what you just described, getting a box with a rock in it. No lie, I remembered that when I read your last post.

Crap, I wonder how many times we ran in to each other on liberty...

54 posted on 04/15/2016 9:04:28 AM PDT by Kenton
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LOL! We may have. When we were anchored off Gulf Juan, me being a lowly E-2, I got assigned a work detail to go in to Cannes and off load milk from refrigerated semis for the squadron on to a barge to be dispersed to all the ships. We spent all day at the beach in our dungarees and offloaded about 5000 5 gallon boxes of milk(it was either 3000 or 5000. Long time ago). We had to sit and wait for the barge to return after the first load and then load the rest. I think the Lester got like 10 boxes. Of course the carrier got the bulk of it. As for the Berettas, like I said, three of us went to the NATO exchange and got ours. They were actually in the boxes when we got back on board but were quickly whisked away to the armory.


56 posted on 04/15/2016 9:26:00 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: CyberAnt
The Russians continue to BUZZ the West Coast .. because they can.

What was the destroyer doing so close to the West Coast anyway?

57 posted on 04/15/2016 8:14:10 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx)
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To: Oztrich Boy

The flyby of the destroyer was not near CA. I was talking about other aircraft .. large bombers the Russians fly near Alaska and the Northwest.


58 posted on 04/15/2016 9:53:26 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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