[moonshot925]

These are the vessels(not in pearl)

Admiral Panteleyev

Boris Butoma

Fotiy Krylov

[Paladin2]

http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Fotiy-Krylov-8613346.html

[Average Al]

Does the U.S. Navy always travel with a salvage ship like the Russians seem to find necessary? ;-)

[doorgunner69]

Almost wish I still worked at Pearl to watch them come in. Remember how incongruous it was seeing Japanese flags come into the harbor........

[skeeter]

The Pantaleyev is a good looking ship. I wish our’s still had superfiring turrets - makes a warship look like a warship.

[Magnatron]

I remember during my time in the navy (1980s), when we had an Indian Ocean tour and we found ourselves shadowed by Soviet Krivak class destroyers every day. They lit us up regularly with their weapons systems, disrupted our underway replenishment maneuvers, and created general havoc on our day-to-day deployment activities.

One day, we had a USO group come to our ship for the day. They setup on the fantail and gave us a concert. One of the Soviet vessels edged up alongside and dropped anchor. We weren’t only but a few hundred yards from each other. Their crew came out and sat on the decks, listening to our concert. We waved back and forth and took pictures of each other across the water. When the concert was over, they weighed anchor and pulled away. Not too long after that, they lit us up again with their weapons systems.

It reminded me of that World War I story of the opposing soldiers in the trenches during Christmas.

It’s really a shame that we consider each other enemies. Back in the 1800s, Russia and the U.S. were the closest of friends.

[yldstrk]

I am dumbfounded. These people are not our friends

[Kickass Conservative]

This would be a really bad time for the Germans to bomb Pearl Harbor again.