Saw a old video of a Russian ship bumping a US ship back in the 80s.
That must have been intense.
Yeah, in 81 or 2 we were underway refueling with the Enterprise or Kitty Hawk in the Sea of Okhotsk. The Soviet ship - think a destroyer - steamed up and almost under the fuel hose stretched between the ships - then back off and turned away. Happened often and was fun. Just something to break up the monotany of life “haze grey and underway”
USS Henry B Wilson (DDG -7)
US Third Fleet, US Surface Forces Pacific 1979-84