Ivan sez, "Perfect is the enemy of good enough."
Russian announcements about their weapons look much like those of the Iranians.
Yeah, that's the ticket! With just ONE little bomb...
That is a knee slapped. Still trying to be relevant
But they could not stop a cruise missile strike when given a 2 hour warning.
Very un russian, they like damage not ewar
"A new classified Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that for the second time in two years, advanced Federation electronic warfare defences have crippled the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG-75)and when Baltic Fleet special forces elements offered assistance to tow them back to their Polish port, the Americans refused to respond.
According to this report, in April, 2014, the USS Donald Cook, while performing a mission in the Black Sea, substantially violated Federation territorial integrity causing President Putin to authorize an electronic warfare defense attack against it that was so devastating this top-line warship was left adriftand once towed back to its Romanian port, its American sailors were so demoralized 27 of them filed immediate letters of resignation from the US Navy."
is KRET still trying to market their super duper jamming device that magically works even when it’s not installed ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Donald_Cook
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Oh, how I have missed the cold war.
Sounds like someone has ‘little man syndrome’.
Electric bomb? Do they have an extension cord long enough?
Disabling a single ship in the ocean, and taking out the entire US Navy at one time, is a bald faced lie. We’ve known about static in strat nue-dets for a long time. We plan to do the same if we have to launch.
Here is a good, although lengthy, article about it:
http://www.ausairpower.net/ASPC-E-Bomb-Mirror.html
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The book "One Second After", by William Forstchen is an interesting and terrifying look into one small are of the US after one such attack, which would not be terribly hard to do for a small group of well funded terrorists.
Putin saving face from Syrian strike and leading from behind
with North Korea. Total BS.
I’d say that we need a little more information than that......
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/11/13/aegis-fail-in-black-sea-ruskies-burn-down-uss-donald-duck/
from link:
Russian Sukhoi Su -24 with the newest jamming complex paralyzed in the Black Sea the most modern American combat management system Aegis installed on the destroyer USS Donald Cook. Pavel Zolotarev, Deputy Director, Institute of USA and Canada, shares details about this version which is being actively discussed in the Russian media and by bloggers.
US destroyer Donald Cook with cruise missiles Tomahawk entered the neutral waters of the Black Sea on April 10. The purpose was a demonstration of force and intimidation in connection with the position of Russia in Ukraine and Crimea. The appearance of American warships in these waters is in contradiction of the Montreux Convention about the nature and duration of stay in the Black Sea by the military ships of countries not washed by this sea.
In response, Russia sent an unarmed bomber Su- 24 to fly around the U.S. destroyer. However, experts say that this plane was equipped with the latest Russian electronic warfare complex. According to this version, Aegis spotted from afar the approaching aircraft, and sounded alarm. Everything went normally, American radars calculated the speed of the approaching target. And suddenly all the screens went blank. Aegis was not working any more, and the rockets could not get target information. Meanwhile, Su-24 flew over the deck of the destroyer, did battle turn and simulated missile attack on the target. Then it turned and repeated the maneuver. And did so 12 times.
Apparently, all efforts to revive the Aegis and provide target information for the defence failed. Russias reaction to military pressure from the United States was profoundly calm, feels the Russian political scientist Pavel Zolotarev:
The demonstration was original enough. A bomber without any weapons, but having onboard equipment for jamming enemy radar, worked against a destroyer equipped with Aegis, the most modern system of air and missile defence. But this system of mobile location, in this case the ship, has a significant drawback. That is, the target tracking capabilities.
This would make the putinistas happy.