I challenge to you to read to the end, at the end I have a little quiz for you.
Major General
Igor Konashov answered pentagon's accusations --
He said that 10th of February 2017 there was no incidents with Russian aircraft flying close to USS Porter.
Major General pointed out that all flights of planes over neutral waters of Black sea are carried out strictly in accordance to international law.
"There was no incidents 10th february, associated with flight of Russian military jets in Black sea near US destroyer "Porter". All flights of our planes carried out in neutral waters of Black sea in compliance to international rules and regulations of safty", - answered head of press service department of defence, general Igor Konashev.
"If U.S. Destroyer, as says pentagon Official, carried out "usual" patrul near Russia, dozens of thousands of miles from its homeland shores, - strange to wonder no more usual flights of our planes above Black sea", - with irony resonated defense department official.
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‘No incidents over Black Sea’: Russian MoD denies ‘unprofessional & unsafe’ flyby of USS Porter
The Russian Ministry of Defense has denied any unusual incidents or encounters with a US destroyer after the Pentagon accused Moscow of “unsafe and unprofessional” piloting in the vicinity of the USS Porter “patrolling” the Black Sea.
On Tuesday, Captain Danny Hernandez, a spokesman for the US European Command, said that on three separate occasions, Russian military jets came close to the USS Porter destroyer in the Black Sea on February 10.
One of the incidents, the US official said, involved two supersonic Su-24 attack jets. The second one also involved a separate Su-24, while the third flyby was apparently made by an IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft.
US Defense Department spokesperson Michelle Baldanza said the incidents were deemed
“unsafe and unprofessional,” pointing out that the Russian aircraft did not have their transponders on.
“Several incidents by multiple Russian aircraft in the Black Sea near the destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) on Feb. 10 were assessed by the ship's commanding officer as unsafe and unprofessional,” Baldanza told Sputnik on Tuesday.
“Such incidents are concerning because they can result in accident or miscalculation.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense, on Tuesday, denied the US accusations.
“There were no incidents related to a flyby of Russian military aircraft near the USS Porter destroyer in the Black Sea on February 10,” Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.
“All of our flights were conducted and are being conducted over the neutral waters of the Black Sea in accordance with international rules and safety requirements,” the general added.
Konashenkov was surprised to hear the US military were astonished to see Russian fighters so close to Russian borders.
“If the US destroyer, as the Pentagon official claims, conducted a 'regular' patrol mission in the vicinity of Russia, tens of thousands miles away from their own shores, it is strange to be surprised about the no less regular flights of our aircraft over the Black Sea,” said the representative of the Ministry of Defense.
While Moscow denied the claims, the encounters allegedly occurred on the last day of Sea Shield 2017 - NATO's maritime maneuvers in the Black Sea. The drills in the vicinity of Constanta, Romania, took place February 1-10.
Some 2,800 seamen from Bulgaria, Canada, Greece, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine and the US practiced methods of defending against undersea, air and overland attacks. Overall 16 warships, one submarine, and ten aircraft took part in the drills.
The Black Sea drills are just a latest in a series of actions NATO has taken close to Russia's borders. On January 31, US and Polish soldiers, alongside newly delivered American military hardware, also conducted joint drills in what has been described as the biggest US deployment in Europe since the end of the Cold War.
Moscow has repeatedly voiced concerns over NATO’s military activity on its borders.
These actions threaten our interests, our security,” Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month.
“Especially as it concerns a third party building up its military presence near our borders.”
In response, Russia stationed its most modern weaponry and armaments in its western regions, including the exclave of Kaliningrad, which shares a border with Poland and Lithuania, and is carrying out large-scale military drills on home soil, including the Black Sea.
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This is video from April
12 2016, SU-24M over USS Donald Cook
This video is from April 16 2016, KGB
How it was and how it could have been
From this video, Konstantin Dushenov:
I personally in November of 1983 was commander of strategic nuclear submarine with tactical number K-324 which suffered an accident not far shores of United States. There we incountered complex situation, they even shot a movie about us, it was called black prince or something. Situation was as following, we encountered US destroyer there, and rolled its acustic microphone on our propeller, couldn't move, had to surface, and they cornered us from all sides, and were flying over us anyway they wanted, from left to right, from right to left, from top to bottom, from bottom to top, using helicopters, planes, anything, and they were fine with it. This is considering that during that time, it was hight of cold war, we had with United States agreements on government level, that during a meet in global ocean our planes, ships, don't immitate military attacks. Immitation of military attack was prohibited, because during that time, essentially everyone was locked and loaded. Back then United States spit on that agreement and did what they wanted. Today we do not have such an agreement, United States thinks Russian is too weak. Well what can we do, we fly the way we want to fly.....According to Kerry, Russian planes could be shot down because of such manuvering. I want to ask him, are we in a state of war? Because I must be missing something......
Interesting video by the way, though I won't translate it all, I'm too lazy. What's the name of the movie by the way, who knows?
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Here is the quiz. WITHOUT USING GOOGLE SEARCH OR ANY OTHER INTERNET SEARCH, DON'T CHEAT!
Quiz 3 questions:
1) Find United States on the map.
2) Find Russia on the map.
3) Find Black sea on the map.
