A Russian military ship almost rammed a US Navy destroyer in the Arabian sea

In the Arabian sea, an incident occurred involving U.S. Navy warships and Russia. Russian warship «aggressively» responded to the warnings of the American ship USS «Farragut» of a possible collision. On Friday said representatives of the Navy and Department of defense.

Video of the incident shows how a Russian warship quickly moving closer to the USS Farragut, reducing the distance between the sides up to 180 feet, and then suddenly changes course.

This incident is the latest example of the immediate meeting of the American and Russian armed forces, which U.S. officials call a dangerous and provocative.

NEW: the US Navy has released footage of an incident in the North Arabian Sea between the USS Farragut and a Russian Navy ship.pic.twitter.com/VNBwHAb2co

— Henry Jones (@hthjones) January 10, 2020

The meeting of the ships in the Arabian sea occurred about seven months after the incident in the Pacific when U.S. and Russian warships approached each other so closely that the U.S. Navy ship, USS «Chancellorsville», was forced to make an emergency maneuver to avoid a collision.

NEW: Earlier today, a Russian destroyer made an «unsafe» manoeuvre on the guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville.

The Russian ship came from behind and accelerated to a distance of 50 feet. This forced Chancellorsville to engage all engines back to full to avoid collision. pic.twitter.com/NZHYrkKEo9

— Henry Jones (@hthjones) June 7, 2019

«On Thursday, January 9th, while conducting routine operations in the Northern Arabian sea to the USS Farragut aggressively approached the ship of the Navy of Russia», — reads the statement of the Fifth fleet of the US Navy, which controls naval operations in the middle East.

«Farragut» gave 5 short signals that are, respectively, the international Maritime agreements signify a warning of danger of collision, and asked the Russian ship to change course in accordance with international shipping regulations. The Russian ship ignored the original warning, but ultimately changed its course».

The Russian ship, in the end, he turned after the establishment of radio communication between a Russian ship and a destroyer of the United States.

«For a while, until the Russian ship did not respond to the warning signal, without observing international rules, his aggressive convergence has created a threat of collision.»

The representative of the United States Navy says that the «Farragut» is part of a group of aircraft carrier «Harry S. Truman», and this ship performs the function of the interception of potential enemy ships, preventing them from rapprochement with the us carrier.

A Russian military ship almost rammed a US Navy destroyer in the Arabian seaA video frame of the convergence of U.S. Navy ships and the Russian Federation in the Arabian sea.

After the June incident, the US Navy has accused a Russian military ship that he was acting unsafe, approaching 100 feet to the USS «Chancellorsville», forcing the American ship to perform an emergency maneuver to avoid a collision.

In the video, filmed with an American ship, the two ships came so close to each other that you can see the Russian sailors sunbathing on the stern of my ship.

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