How a Russian fighter frightened an American destroyer. Russian fighter jets scare American sailors in the Baltic Sea (video). On an unnamed frequency

The incident involving the flight of a Russian Su-24 bomber over the US destroyer Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea is reminiscent of deja vu. Exactly two years ago, a similar meeting between "Cook" and "Sushka" over the Black Sea made a lot of noise. According to media reports, in April 2014, the crew of this American warship was frightened by the electronic warfare equipment used by the Russian aircraft, which paralyzed the destroyer's on-board equipment - then 27 crew members filed a transfer report.

Two years after that incident, the defendants "relocated" to the Baltic Sea. Here, according to the American side, two Su-24 aircraft, presumably without ammunition, flew near the destroyer Donald Cook, which was conducting training sessions with the participation of a Polish Air Force helicopter. Russian bombers flew near an American ship for two days in a row, and also prevented a Polish helicopter from taking off. A Russian military helicopter Ka-27 was also seen nearby.

“We have deep concerns about unsafe and unprofessional Russian maneuvers.

These actions have the potential to escalate tensions between countries, ”the representatives are quoted as saying.

Hero of Russia, Honored Test Pilot of the USSR, Colonel Anatoly Kvochur also noted that all pilots must master this maneuver - flying at extremely low altitude. It is necessarily included in the combat training course for fighter-bomber aviation, as well as for tactical bombers, which is the Su-24.

“It is used for covert approach to the target. This is especially important when the terrain is rugged, and above the sea it can be seen from afar.

But at a good speed, and it was about 900 km / h, it is difficult to detect such an aircraft in advance - at low altitude it is a point, which then turns into a large, rather strong buzzing object, ”the source says.

As is known, Su-24 bomber - front-line bomber with variable sweep wing, designed for delivering missile and bomb strikes in simple and difficult weather conditions, day and night, including at low altitudes with targeted destruction of ground and surface targets. A variable-sweep wing is a type of fixed-wing heavier-than-air aircraft design that allows one of the types of wing geometry, the sweep, to be changed in flight. At high flight speeds, a larger sweep is more effective, and at low speeds (takeoff, landing) - a smaller one.

“Because they were flying with a straight wing – it’s a cruise and landing wing – obviously the speed was low,” Kvochur explains. —

If they folded the wing to the maximum sweep, then it would be possible to fly at a speed of 1300-1400 km / h, which would lead to a serious pop, because supersonic speed pulls the so-called shock wave and pulls such a wave. This wave can lead to the destruction of some weakly reinforced structures, such as antennas, and on the ground it can lead to the destruction of small buildings, ”the pilot clarifies.

He noted that, obviously, the commanders did not allow the wing to be folded so as not to aggravate the situation. “If these pilots made such a maneuver on their own initiative, based on patriotic and professional considerations, then this is the commander’s business, but I would encourage them for their professionalism,” says the Hero of Russia.

According to US military sources, Russian aircraft flew over the destroyer Donald Cook in neutral waters at an altitude of less than 30 m, about 10 m from it, which, in their opinion, was "unprofessional and unsafe."

“On Tuesday, a pair of Russian combat Su-24s, presumably unarmed, flew around the Cook 11 times. At one point, the Russian aircraft was 30 feet (9.14 m) away from the ship,” Pentagon spokesman Michelle Baldansa said in a statement.

Commenting on the statements of the American side about "unprofessional behavior", the honored pilot of Russia emphasized that everything was done cleanly, without rough edges.

“In general, flying over the sea at extremely low altitude is a rather serious matter, because it is difficult to determine the height. When you fly over the earth's surface, there are some irregularities, there is something for the eye to catch on, and so is the sea and the sea. This is a serious matter that requires professionalism,” he told Gazeta.Ru.

At the same time, he added that it is much easier to fly near the ship, which is a landmark, having its height. “It would be possible to fly in such a way that a wave would rise and the water would soar a little, it would wash the eyes of the Americans a little,” Kvochur joked.

Meanwhile, the American side, having studied the incident, used diplomatic channels to appeal to Russia. The U.S. Congressman in charge of naval affairs stated that "the activity of the US Navy in Europe must be expanded in such a way as to respond to the threat posed by Russia's international behavior." Although, as retired US Navy officer Rick told The Navy Times, the American destroyer did not open fire on Russian aircraft flying dangerously close to the ship, since they were not armed and did not pose a threat: “We are not at war with Russia,” Hoffman said, noting that people should not be killed just because “they are annoying.”

Recall that Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Donald Cook equipped with Aegis air defense system with anti-missiles, as well as Tomahawk cruise missiles. The decision to hit targets threatening the ship can be made automatically.

As Igor, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, said on Thursday, all flights of aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces are carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace over neutral waters. “The flight path of the Russian aircraft passed through the area where the USS Donald Cook was located, about 70 km from the Russian naval base. Having found the ship in the zone of visual visibility, the Russian pilots turned away from it in compliance with all security measures,” Konashenkov said.

As Colonel Kvochur explained to Gazeta.Ru, as for the lapel, this is true, and once again emphasized the professionalism of the pilots when performing the maneuver. “They did not fly over the ship and its superstructures at such a speed that people got on deck there. They turned away, walked aside at a considerable distance. If they went supersonic, there would be cotton. But I hope that in the near foreseeable future it will not come to this in relations with American partners, ”he concluded.

Warsaw also expressed its opinion on the incident. The head of Poland said that, together with the United States, they would "consider a common response" to the incident, since "it was carried out mainly against a Polish helicopter." According to him, "this type of provocative behavior" has been observed "for some time now", and the question is "what is its purpose and why it was needed."

It was routine. For two and a half hours he flew along the Russian border and, probably, laughed out loud both at the Russians and at his own people, who frightened him of the Russians. He is the crew of an American P-3 Orion long-range electronic reconnaissance aircraft. Those who had already been here warned that it was better to drive to Iraq or show off over Afghanistan than to tease the Russians. But here they are over the Black Sea. Scanning the enemy coast. Reduces cheekbones from boredom. "Russians, but...". "U" didn't get to say. And they didn’t even understand, but immediately felt why this car was called “Su”.

“We define this as an unsafe approach due to the fact that the Su-27 crossed the flight path of the P-3, due to which the P-3 had to fly through the vortex from the Su-27 jet,” Washington will say later. Gold words. "Whirlwinds from the jet". Both cause and effect. We would get rid of the turbulence at home - and there would be no jet. And our interception was born by a grip. I did not look at the louse like a soldier. Wing waved and drove away. He jumped off without looking back. The Pentagon was offended. The State Department pouted. Your fighter, they say, flew up to one and a half meters. Five feet. Like, a little more, and it would be seven feet. Under the keel. And this is a completely different element.

Although, if you look, the sky over the Black Sea is also not at all their element. But we understand everything. international waters. No questions. They are not even caused by the fact that for the USA it is the seventh international water on jelly. But that's how they work. We are not complaining. And somewhere even grateful. It is they who in the States need to maintain a special squadron "Aggressors" in order to practice air combat tactics on them. And we don’t need to repaint anyone in the colors of the enemy. Here he drew himself. Thank you, so to speak, for the tone and conditions close to combat.

But even in the sky the laws of the genre are immutable. One of them says: you fly up - I drive away. As it was done in strict accordance with safety rules. Well, the fact that it seemed to the Americans that at a distance of one and a half meters was only to show them once again: "we are so close that words are not needed." Just a wink is enough. Although, probably, they themselves already know that the MiG is when there is time to turn around. And then immediately "Su". And then just run. So, probably, they will remember this episode in the office of psychological rehabilitation.

They will probably be rewarded. Or, at least, a consolation prize - a premium business trip to Afghanistan. There are definitely no Russians there. And where they are, in the sense, in Russia, they are given to understand in the Pentagon, they should be more accommodating. "Russia must comply with international standards set for security." They would still require us to render them full cooperation. Although ... this, in fact, they do all the time. As for the Su-ti, the US itself admits that due to the Russian rapprochement, the P-3 mission ended ahead of schedule. That is, they wanted "pi-three", but it turned out to be pi-pi. And if it’s easier, then you don’t need “pi” ...

There won’t be enough self-propelled guns even for cities))) “... Since 1945, the United States has produced 66.5 thousand atomic bombs and nuclear warheads. Suppose that they fucked up with disarmament and they all exist. This is a clear exaggeration, since half of them degrade for physical reasons "Well, fuck it. The average yield is 100 kilotons. This is a convincing destruction of a square kilometer and a litter of a hundred (10x10), which is also, in general, an exaggeration. However, I consider it to the maximum, for a start.
Further. There are 14 nuclear power plants in Russia, although there are much more power units, but it does not matter. Each nuclear power plant will fail in an unfavorable scenario, a square of 100 x 100 kilometers, that's 10 thousand.
Bombs without nuclear power plants - 100 sq. km * 66,000 = 6.6 million square kilometers.
Hits on nuclear power plants - 10,000 sq. km * 14 = 144 thousand. Nothing at all.

As a result, two-thirds of Russia will be completely free from radiation. And they definitely won’t bomb on collective farms, so there are no problems with grub.

And now we will cut the sturgeon.

As of October 1, 2016, the US strategic nuclear forces have 1,367 nuclear warheads on 681 deployed strategic launchers, 848 deployed and non-deployed launchers. The total is about two thousand. most of the 848 are tactics that, with all the will, cannot be applied on Russian territory.

Remains a million and a half square kilometers.

At least half will be shot down. All this shit will rain down on Europe, but I already attributed myself at the beginning of the script to collateral damage.

It remains 500-700 thousand.

Further, the declared 100 kilometers is ten times overestimated for an average ammunition of one hundred kilotons. In fact, there will be a square kilometer at the epicenter and a square of 3x3 kilometers, where it is better to wait ten years with agriculture.

It remains 50-70 thousand.

The blows will be massive, i.e. a dozen warheads will fly to some places, and not a single one to some. There is no need to talk about uniform distribution. Here I do not undertake forecasts - but is it possible to seriously think that if 50 thousand square kilometers out of 18 million are destroyed, universal Hell and Israel will come? For some reason I'm not sure about that.

Yes, Moscow, Leningrad, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Kyiv and Zhitomir ecetera will be razed to the ground. But is this the end?

These were theoretical calculations. But the specifics - what the Pindos actually have.

1. Actually the Strategic Missile Forces - reduced to three positional areas of Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota. Former bases in California, Kansas, Arkansas, Arizona, South Dakota, Missouri lost their status.

2. Air Force - B-52s are consolidated into two wings, Louisiana and North Dakota; B-1B in 1995 was withdrawn from the number of carriers of nuclear weapons; B-2 is one wing in Missouri. Basing outside the mainland is not provided.

3. Fleet - The surface is deprived of nuclear weapons with the withdrawal of the CD from the composition, the submarine is based on two (one per shore) - Bangor and Kings Bay bases. Guam, Pearl Harbor, Rota, Charleston, Holy Lough have lost their home status.

4. There are some bombs in Europe - Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany. The F-16 and F-15 were assigned as carriers, which, due to combat characteristics, cannot be offensive weapons. The only intelligible function in such a duet is a barrage (alas, in Eastern Europe) in the event of an enemy attack.

All this wealth cannot be taken for an offensive configuration. There can be no explosive deployment either, logistics in the US Armed Forces is an honorary department, and not an ensign in a warehouse and miracle heroes under hatches ready to attack without pipifax.

It is naive to think that in such a configuration they are capable of winning a nuclear war. Yes, yes, I heard a thousand times that everyone will lose it, because mutants and nuclear winter. But with this insignificant arsenal, is it possible to bomb Russia - not to mention the whole world - into the Stone Age?

At this point, let me remind you that by 1942 the USSR had lost about 10 percent of its territory. And not in the form of radioactive stains, but as a result of the occupation. However, the connection of the remaining part was not broken, and the leadership remained in the hands of the then government. Putin, of course, is not Stalin, but his vertical is enough for even Cruz's quite optimistic scenario to remain only a fantasy.

PS. The most illustrative example of the area after nuclear strikes is the test site on Novaya Zemlya, where many nuclear explosions were carried out in a fairly short period of time, including ground-based and of huge power. As a result, the zones of long-term contamination of the area with isotopes with a long half-life occupied no more than six square kilometers, in the area of ​​​​four ground explosions. Throughout the rest of the test site, even at the height of the testing period, the radiation background was within the permissible range. The plume stretched for thousands of kilometers, but as a result of this, the concentration of radioactive fallout was so low that in the places where they fell, the background also did not exceed the permissible level.
...
ernobyl? Chernobyl released thousands of times more radioactive shit than any nuclear explosion. In an explosion, much less material is used, and it simply burns out. During the accident at the nuclear power plant, in fact, “the lid was torn off the pan” and the contents were mechanically scattered. That is, the Chernobyl zone or the same Fukushima cannot serve as a model of a nuclear war, they are models of a reactor accident and nothing more.

But she completely refutes another myth - about mutants. The most common animals live on the territory of the zone, and in general, due to the closeness, there is a full flowering of flora and fauna. Mutations in the vast majority of cases lead to the death of the mutant, this is a deformity, not an improvement. Those very first eyeless fish in Pripyat died out in the first year, no one else saw them.

Eternal nuclear winter? It also doesn't work. The accumulation of carbon dioxide and soot emissions will lead to warming after a not too long cold period. The climate will become wetter, a little warmer than before, that's all. So the post-nuclear world will be just a destroyed world, nothing more. © OneGoodPerson

A new reason for dissatisfaction with Russia has appeared in the United States of America. This time, the Russian Air Force, or more precisely, the aviation group operating in the Baltic Sea region, became an irritating factor.

The US European Command released a video showing the incident, which, according to the US side, occurred on April 12.

The video shows how. Judging by the behavior of the destroyer's crew, the actions of the Russian pilots, at least, made them nervous.

According to the American media, the United States is trying to communicate its dissatisfaction with the "provocative and dangerous" actions of Russian pilots to Moscow through diplomatic channels.

At the same time, the Pentagon decided to publish the video to prove that the planes created a real danger to the ship.

The destroyer "Donald Cook" conducted exercises in the Baltic Sea together with the Polish military. According to the American side, the actions of Russian aviation prevented a Polish military helicopter from taking off from the destroyer.

Stroked "against wool"

White House Spokesman Joshua Ernest called the actions of Russian pilots inconsistent with the norms of behavior in international air and sea spaces. “Russian planes flew dangerously close to a US warship and a Polish aircraft,” the White House spokesman said.

The Pentagon, in turn, assures: the speed and angle of attack of the Russian bomber were menacing.

Veterans of the USSR Armed Forces, who remember the events of the Cold War, only shrug their shoulders - nothing unusual happened in the sky over the Baltic, this kind of situation happened quite often in those days, and American aircraft flew over Soviet ships just as often. Unless, over the past 20 years, the US military has become unaccustomed to the fact that someone can, as they say, “pat the wrong way.”

For those who are eager to accuse Russia of aggressive actions, it is worth recalling that this is an American destroyer conducting exercises in close proximity to Russia, and not vice versa. Therefore, the desire of representatives of the Russian Air Force to clarify why Donald Cook came here and what he needs here is natural and legitimate.

"Cook" and "Su": a new meeting after two years

The destroyer "Donald Cook" (USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) belongs to the fourth generation of ships of this class. The main weapon of the "Cook" are cruise missiles "Tomahawk" with a range of up to 2500 kilometers, capable of carrying nuclear charges. In normal and strike versions the destroyer is equipped with 56 or 96 of these missiles, respectively.It was named after a participant in the Vietnam War, Marine Captain Donald Gilbert Cook who died in 1967 from malaria.

The ship, belonging to the 22nd squadron of the US Naval Forces Command and assigned to the Rota base in Spain, first appeared off the Russian coast in the spring of 2014.

The US authorities, dissatisfied with the annexation of Crimea to Russia, decided to play military muscles by sending a destroyer to the Black Sea, to the shores of the Russian peninsula.

It was there that "Donald Cook" first met with his now "bosom friend" - the Su-24 front-line bomber. The meeting took place, interestingly, also on April 12. The Su-24 over the course of an hour and a half made several flights past the destroyer, which caused discontent among the US authorities, who also accused the Russian pilot of dangerous maneuvers.

April 14 "Donald Cook" arrived in the Romanian port of Constanta, and April 24 left the Black Sea.

According to some reports, the Khibiny electronic jamming system was installed on board the Su-24, which turned off the radar and weapons control system on the Donald Cook. Then the destroyer completely lost its course, with great difficulty reaching the coast of Romania.

The American media claimed that right in the port of Constanta, 27 crew members filed reports on the transfer from the destroyer - they were so impressed by their acquaintance with the Russian aircraft. However, there is no official confirmation of this information.

Experienced Fencer

Su-24 (according to NATO codification: Fencer - “Fencer”) is a tactical front-line bomber with a variable sweep wing, designed to deliver missile and bomb strikes in simple and adverse weather conditions, day and night, including at low altitudes with targeted destruction of ground and surface targets. Operation of the Su-24 began in February 1975; the operation of the Su-24M modification, which is discussed in this case, was launched in June 1983.

Despite the fact that this combat vehicle has been in service for several decades, it is quite successfully capable of solving problems in modern conditions. In 2009, the first batch of modernized Su-24M2 aircraft was delivered to the Russian Air Force.

At the same time, according to military pilots, the Su-24 is a very serious machine, the piloting of which requires a high level of training from the crew. Only real aces are capable of flying in the immediate vicinity of an American destroyer.

As of 2016, the Russian Air Force is armed with 140 Su-24M/M2 and 79 Su-24MR.