Russian spy ship operating off Kauai, Navy confirms

Star Advertiser ^ | 5-26-21 | William Cole

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A Russian spy ship parked in international waters off Kauai for several days has delayed a Missile Defense Agency missile test, officials said.

U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor said in a statement that it “is aware of the Russian vessel operating in international waters in the vicinity of Hawaii, and will continue to track it through the duration of its time here. Through maritime patrol aircraft, surface ships and joint capabilities, we can closely monitor all vessels in the Indo-Pacific area of operations.”

It was not immediately clear if the Russian vessel is broadcasting an automatic identification system, or AIS, signal. If it is, the ship’s presence — beyond Pacific Fleet’s significant detection capabilities — would be a clear indicator of the ship’s presence to possibly interfere with the missile test.

That test could be for an SM-6 intercept of a replicated cruise missile threat. The Missile Defense Agency could not be immediately reached for comment this morning.

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Putin is very afraid of the vegetable in chief.

[Pining_4_TX]

Every country spies on every other country, at least the countries that matter. This is not new.

[Does so]

Loose lips...

[Mariner]

This would have been news 70 years ago.

[dynachrome]

True. We do the same.

[rfp1234]

But the morally superior US Navy vessels have inclusive heads!

[Savage Beast]

You don’t suppose they’ve been emboldened by the tranny/pregnant US Armed Forces, do you?

[Western Phil]

New model Russian fishing trawler?

[Bayard]

Ima say Russia is helping China and sharing military intelligence at this point. Chinese government would love to know what’s going on at American Missile bases.

[Sacajaweau]

They're in International Waters...Like we never do this type of surveillance.

[Seruzawa]

No prob. China has Xiden and his apparatchiks to give them all the intel they want. No need for a Russian spy ship.

[libh8er]

Spies within the Trump administration were a far greater national security threat than a harmless boat in international waters.

[Fred Hayek]

That’s nothing new. The Soviets always had trawlers around Kwajalein back to the ABM development days. And then there was the occasional Bear, and one time even a Foxtrot trying to land a Spetznaz team - that one got caught in the channel at low tide.

[Bayard]

No you see...you want up to date information ando independent corrobations to test those systems and fine tune them.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Not really, Cold War and Korean War were well underway by that date...

[Don Corleone]

China has Xiden and his apparatchiks to give them all the intel they want. No need for a Russian spy ship.

Ask any Democrat Congressman or Senator. Slip 'em a few Yuan ( don't forget 10% for the Big Guy) and they'll sing like Caruso.

[doorgunner69]

Like back in the early 60’s when we had an airplane monitoring Soviet nuke tests. One was so close to the 50Mt Tsar bomb detonation that is got scorched paint.

[darkangel82]

Blow it to kingdom come.

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The Soviet Vishnya-class intelligence collection ship Kareliya (SSV-535, in the foreground) steamed alongside the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Texas in 1988. Texas at the time was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson for a deployment in the Western Pacific.

[Huskrrrr]

Flipping Xiden the bird.