The State Department acknowledged that the crew of the destroyer USS Donald Cook has been gravely demoralized ever since their vessel was flown over in the Black Sea by a Russian Sukhoi-24 (Su-24) fighter jet which carried neither bombs nor missiles but only an electronic warfare device.
The US destroyer is equipped with the most
recent Aegis Combat System. It is an integrated naval weapons systems which can
link together the missile defense systems of all vessels embedded within the
same network, so as to ensure the detection, tracking and destruction of
hundreds of targets at the same time. In addition, the USS Donald Cook is
equipped with 4 large radars, whose power is comparable to that of several
stations. For protection, it carries more than fifty anti-aircraft missiles of
various types.
Meanwhile, the Russian Su-24 that buzzed the
USS Donald Cook carried neither bombs nor missiles but only a basket mounted
under the fuselage, which, according to the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya
Gazeta [2], contained a Russian electronic warfare device called Khibiny.
As the Russian jet approached the US vessel,
the electronic device disabled all radars, control circuits, systems,
information transmission, etc. on board the US destroyer. In other words, the
all-powerful Aegis system, now hooked up - or about to be - with the defense
systems installed on NATO’s most modern ships was shut down, as turning off the
TV set with the remote control.
The Russian Su-24 then simulated a missile
attack against the USS Donald Cook, which was left literally deaf and blind. As
if carrying out a training exercise, the Russian aircraft - unarmed - repeated
the same maneuver 12 times before flying away.
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