Yazata
Valued Senior Member
The sailors on the destroyer took some pretty spectacular photos. These passes must have been loud!
The ship was a US 'Arleigh Burke' class AEGIS destroyer that probably could have splashed these jets if it had wanted to. Of course the jets could have been carrying anti-ship missiles too. They appear to be Sukhoi SU-24s, probably from Russian naval aviation.
I don't know why the Russians did this, but I can speculate. Presumably they were expressing their displeasure with the ship being in the Baltic about 70 miles west of Kaliningrad. Looking at the map tells me that's international waters near Poland's Hel peninsula, north of Gdansk. That's where Poland's most important ports are located. So they were implicitly sending a message to Poland too.
Poland's become a US friend. Russia will just have to get used to it.
http://www.defense.gov/News-Article...ers-aggressive-russian-aircraft-in-baltic-sea
The ship was a US 'Arleigh Burke' class AEGIS destroyer that probably could have splashed these jets if it had wanted to. Of course the jets could have been carrying anti-ship missiles too. They appear to be Sukhoi SU-24s, probably from Russian naval aviation.
I don't know why the Russians did this, but I can speculate. Presumably they were expressing their displeasure with the ship being in the Baltic about 70 miles west of Kaliningrad. Looking at the map tells me that's international waters near Poland's Hel peninsula, north of Gdansk. That's where Poland's most important ports are located. So they were implicitly sending a message to Poland too.
Poland's become a US friend. Russia will just have to get used to it.
http://www.defense.gov/News-Article...ers-aggressive-russian-aircraft-in-baltic-sea
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