US destroyer Donald Cook meets Russian Su-24 again

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The Baltic Air Force F-16 fighter, based in the Baltic states, was alerted and sent to intercept a group of Russian tactical front-line bombers Su-24, which were sent to the USS Donald Cook destroyer in the Baltic Sea. This was reported by the press service of the NATO bloc, posting a video and clarifying that the incident occurred on April 17, 2020.

A group of Russian fighters appeared in the sky above the Baltic Sea. The planes were approaching the destroyer "Donald Cook" of the US Navy. For interception from the Šiauliai airfield (Republic of Lithuania), the Belgian Air Force F-16 fighter was raised. He intercepted a group of Russian Air Force fighters over the sea

- said in a statement "peace-loving" Alliance.



It is noted that the mentioned video was shot from the F-16 cockpit, which is located in Lithuania as part of the “mission to protect airspace on the eastern flank of NATO (Baltic Air Policing)”. The footage shows how the F-16 accompanies Russian aircraft, including two Su-24s, armed with X-25 air-to-surface missiles. The video was accompanied by praise to the Belgian pilot and a statement on the readiness of NATO aviation, located in the Baltic states, to perform tasks 24/7.


It should be recalled that the American destroyer Donald Cook is not the first time appearing in reports related to the Russian Su-24. For example, in April 2016, the Americans announced that a pair of Su-24 allegedly swept over this ship at an altitude of 30 meters. Moreover, the Russians allegedly scared the Americans for two days in a row. Then the Americans called the behavior of the Russians "not in accordance with the accepted standards of behavior of the armed forces in international air and sea spaces."

At the same time, the Americans do not specify that their warships generally “forgot” in the Baltic near the borders of Russia. We remind you that according to the repeated statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian planes carry out their movements in international airspace only in strict accordance with existing rules.
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    1. +3
      April 21 2020 18: 16
      Then you need to scare the US Navy, so that they would run away from the Russian Air Force from fear, so you can save ammunition.
    2. +1
      April 22 2020 00: 39
      Yes, here the people get sick more and more, but the KUK for the media, of course, is more interesting ...
      How was someone "flying" nearby ....
      1. +2
        April 22 2020 08: 01
        Serge, here the people root for your pearls ... Burn on
    3. -1
      April 22 2020 04: 32
      We are waiting for comments about the "Khibiny" and diapers.
      1. +2
        April 22 2020 08: 06
        What about diapers? By the way, do you happen to be a guest worker from there, from the USA? I remind you - you will always be a guest worker for an American .... But Khibiny work and not bad ....
        1. -1
          April 22 2020 11: 17
          No, I’m not a guest worker by chance and I’m not living in the USA .. Can I give an example of the Khibin?
          1. 0
            April 22 2020 12: 35
            And you call the appropriate services of the Russian Federation - they will meet you there ... as a dear person .... they will feed you, they will tell .. in detail ..... and if you like it very much, they will send you to a long resort ... Call, you won’t regret it) )
            1. -2
              April 22 2020 17: 51
              Yes, they are unlikely to tell anything there - about the “exploits” Khibin was told only in yellow waste paper. Relevant services did not report anything like this.
              1. 0
                April 22 2020 18: 21
                Believe me, they will tell ... for you, they will tell everything ... they will show .... they will treat you with tea ... The same wise men wrote about exploits - they earn money with this ..... You do not read the yellow press, and especially Speed ​​info - your intelligence level should rise by 2 units ...
                1. -2
                  April 22 2020 18: 42
                  I didn’t read such waste paper. And about the “exploits” Khibin wrote on such “respected” resources as VO and, in fact, the one on which we are located. And with regards to intelligence - maybe you should first check yours, you see, it will still be below average.
                  1. 0
                    April 23 2020 17: 05
                    Resource VO - became liberal-Jewish-Ukrainian .. There are few sensible people left ... and they are slipping into a tabloid newspaper .... making money .... They smelled the smell of cheap money ... They don’t pay for patriotism, but against the Russian Federation - there * the State Department * will try to wind up visiting people .... You go away, you live far away - but you come to us ... Why? But because you are not needed THERE and are looking for interlocutors here)))
                    1. -2
                      April 23 2020 22: 12
                      I come to you, as a rule, when there is little work on duty, so time passes faster. But I must say that I come not only to you. I go to both English and Hebrew in the same way.
                      1. 0
                        April 24 2020 06: 22
                        So what did I write about? I’m right ... So you’re running around the sites - either an employee of * services *, or simply an unnecessary Jew ... And I think that it’s also dirty in essence.
                        1. -2
                          April 24 2020 07: 26
                          What did you write about? You seem to have trouble understanding what is written. I repeat for those poorly understood - when you are on duty and there are no calls, this means that you have this free time and you can kill him as you like. So I kill him on such "patriotic" sites with such ridiculous "patriots" as you.
                        2. 0
                          April 24 2020 09: 28
                          And in 99% of cases you’re sitting on Russian sites ... because you don’t speak much on Jewish sites .... they will calm me down right away))
    4. +2
      April 22 2020 10: 25
      So, next time the Yankees need to send the Su-24M to intercept the destroyer under the cover of the Su-30MS, so that the next (brave) Belgian, whose ancestors did not show great heroism in the battles with the Nazis, needed diapers ...
      1. -1
        April 22 2020 11: 19
        In, this is the favorite topic of Russian "patriots" - diapers. Who would doubt :)))
        1. +2
          April 22 2020 13: 18
          And let them not climb onto our borders, we will not climb onto the US borders ..
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      April 22 2020 11: 53
      Given the number of trousers in the Donald Cook destroyer crew’s team, I propose changing his name to Donald Pook.
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