Is America being surrounded by Russian ships?
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This ain't new. They do it, we do it too. Always have, always will likely. I was in the Navy 86-92 and there was ALWAYS a Russian intel ship off the coast, 12 miles out, of Hawaii (Pearl) monitoring our comings and goings.
Yeah, I guess, and maybe we even had submarines off each other's coasts. By the way, if you want to read a fascinating book about submarine spying activities in the Cold War, read "Blind Man's Bluff." Very interesting stories for those of us in the Navy and Marines.
I'll tell ya a true story how the game is played and always has been. I had a close friend that was onboard USS Fox during the same time I was in. They went 12 miles off the coast of Vladivostok, dead silent. Once they hit 12 miles out their captain ordered everything lit up, comms, radar, deck lights, EVERYTHING. Then he started a stopwatch. About 30 minutes after they lit up a pair of MIGs flew over. He stopped his watch, gave the order to shut everything down and said lets go home.
It's a game. We are all players in it. We do the same shit they do, daily. Don't get me wrong, sometimes it gets damn scary. I seen some shit during my time that to this day scares the shit out of me. One wrong decision, one wrong move....And now we have an idiot in the White House.
Fascinating, thanks.
Took me a bit to remember what they are called, been a few minutes....AGI, electronic reconnaissance ship.
They are called Skunks - O.S. terminology
I was an ET...probably not your bestest friend LOL