In April 12th, 2014 in the Black Sea, the Russian Sukhoi Su -24 with the newest jamming complex paralyzed the most modern American combat management system “Aegis” installed on the destroyer “USS Donald Cook.”
April 12, 2015 one-year: Russian fighter Su-24 vs US Destroyer USS Donald Cook (2014)
Published on Apr 10, 2015
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Russian fighter jet disables US missile destroyer using electronic warfare weapon.
Russian Sukhoi Su-24 with the newest jamming complex paralyzed in the Black Sea the most modern American combat management system “Aegis” installed on the destroyer “USS Donald Cook”. Pavel Zolotarev, Deputy Director, Institute of USA and Canada, shares details about this version which is being actively discussed in the Russian media and by bloggers.
The Russian Air Force Khibiny is an advanced aircraft-mounted electronic warfare (EW) system capable of jamming state-of-the-art radar-based weapon-systems…
The US military is in shock! Donald Cook and Su 24
The Russian Disabling of the USS Donald Cook Aegis Class Destroyer
Published on Nov 18, 2014
US Navy Aegis Class ships have proven ineffective against Russian electronic jammers so when Putin brought a Flotilla to protect him to the G20 meeting, no American Navy ships were found anywhere in the area.
On April 12th, 2016
Russian Jets Sukhoi Su-24 Celebrate two year anniversary of paralyzing USS Donald Cook
LIVE: Putin delivers annual Q&A in Moscow – ENGLISH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elhrNGq9ifQ
Scheduled for Apr 14, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to hold the 14th annual ‘Direct Line’ Q&A session in Moscow on Thursday, April 14.
RT usually has a live coverage too.
Q&A with Putin has started. RT Youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iYmnDDvPdo&feature=youtu.be
Live Updates:
https://www.rt.com/news/339528-putin-2016-live-conference/
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20160414/1037978376/putin-annual-direct-line.html
Thanks so much, Anon
I have seen your postings of links to Q&A with Putin.
Much appreciated.
Regards
I love this. I remember at the time how hard it was to feel confident about knowing the real story with the Donald Cook. Over time, the story seems to have taken on increasing Russian assurance that it’s true – although even now we don’t seem to have it from a top Russian in uniform as a formal statement.
But now the meme exists clearly: Khibiny can overcome Aegis. The top Russian jammer can paralyze the top US radar. If this were a lie it would seem a dangerous lie to allow to exist, and I suspect Russia would have dispelled it by now.
I suppose the US is working on an upgrade to Aegis that defeats Khibiny. And what is the Donald Cook of all ships doing so provocatively close to Russia at this time – testing something? But ultimately I don’t believe the US can match Russia in any weapons race.
Nice touch, to buzz the Cook again. People say that Russia loses in the information field – I always say she wins, consistently, by changing entire paradigms. What must be the word in US Navy culture nowadays, about fighting Russians at sea?
Putins reaction to a question about USS Donald Cook in the Crimea documentary was the first hint that there may have actually been something in the story, then a number of US defence articles about Russian area denial capability some before, but more since the Russian move into Syria and the new US arms race…. I now take it that a couple of aircraft shut down the aegis system.
The story is absurd. Would Washington show its hand if it had such a weapon? Definitely not, it would be kept as a battlefield surprise in the next big war. The enemy witnesses, of course, would be dead and silent, in a war situation.
So why would we believe that the Russians would be so dumb as to give away such a secret?
The detail of the 27 U.S. sailors kind of jumping ship out of fear, in Romania, clearly tags this story as an April’s fool.
Is this also all just fake and trick-movie then??
/in-the-baltic-sea-russian-su-24-jets-celebrate-anniversary-of-paralyzing-the-uss-donald-cook-in-the-black-sea-by-scott/#comment-229450
No, those are videos of the Russkis buzzing the Yanks; we know it happened, in 2014 and two days ago. But that has nothing to do with electronic warfare, it’s just young fliers acting out; there was better reason for a Soviet frigate nudging the USS Caron out of Soviet territorial waters in 1988.
Luckily, you have no confirmation of claimed electronic warfare magic from any Russian military source; it would be treasonable for them to reveal it if they had it.
So, Matt. Long time no see.
Tell us, how does Poland heroically fight a war on monuments to the Russian soldiers who liberated Poland from the Nazi occupation?
Roots of Polish Russophobia
http://ren.tv/blog/88094
I don’t post often, but I do read your stories.
Interesting article on Ukr-Polish collaboration; my major connection with Poland is that my grandfather got killed in Lviv–it was a Polish city between 1918 and 1939.
You see, Matt, we have something in common. One of my grandfathers was killed liberating Ukraine from Germans, and another was killed somewhere near Poland.
As for Lvov or Lviv, Ukrainian nationalists had murdered 100,000s of Polish people. But Poland forgot all those victims and has become the best of friends with the grandsons of the murderers.
Is a Holocaust restitution campaign being used to keep Poland in line?
so long Siklebaum – Poland under us pressure over failure of war against eastern Ukraine, Russia
http://johnhelmer.net/?p=13204
В полях за Вислой сонной лежат в земле сырой
Серёжка с Малой Бронной и Витька с Моховой…
“… how does Poland heroically fight a war on monuments to the Russian soldiers who liberated Poland from the Nazi occupation? …”
Poland does not need Russian soldiers who lay in the ground by the Vistula…
Польше не нужны русские солдаты, лежащие в земле за Вислой
http://www.fondsk.ru/news/2016/04/09/polshe-ne-nuzhny-russkie-soldaty-lezhaschie-v-zemle-za-visloj-39566.html
***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECN_nWJ6ZMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i_dNW52EL8
В полях за Вислой сонной
Лежат в земле сырой
Сережка с Малой Бронной
И Витька с Моховой.
А где-то в людном мире
Который год подряд
Одни в пустой квартире
Их матери не спят.
Свет лампы воспаленной
Пылает над Москвой
В окне на Малой Бронной,
В окне на Моховой.
Друзьям не встать. В округе
Без них идет кино,
Девчонки, их подруги,
Все замужем давно.
В полях за Вислой сонной
Лежат в земле сырой
Сережка с Малой Бронной
И Витька с Моховой.
Но помнит мир спасенный,
Мир вечный, мир живой,
Сережку с Малой Бронной
И Витьку с Моховой.
There never was Polish-UPA collaboration. Disparaging Poland is a sign of weak character, evil perfidy ad blatant ignorance.
And its not “Poland” but “the current regime in Poland” behind many recent shameful actions and words, 20 million of Polish citizens did not vote for those scumbags.
Only tools of satanic forces use collective responsibility, so stop being a useful idiot.
“… it’s not “Poland” but “the current regime in Poland” behind many recent shameful actions …”
Except the one during the 1945-1989 period, can you think of any XX century regime in Poland that was not involved in shameful deeds?
There is a little more to Poland than is usually mentioned:
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/10/02/no-doubts-poland-responsible-for-beginning-wwii.html
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/10/06/dreams-about-past-third-reich-and-poland-against-ussr.html
“Definitely not, it would be kept as a battlefield surprise in the next big war.”
April 14th 2014 was a few days after the referendum were Crimea rejoined Russia. USS Donald Cook was approaching Crimea as a show of US power.
Relevant section is from 1.24 to 1.33 in the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t42-71RpRgI
Somewhere in the “Crimea. The way Home” video was another very short section where Putin was asked about the Donald Cook.
‘it would be kept as a battlefield surprise’
Indeed……unless it’s a warning that much better awaits………….
Muahahahaaaa!!!!!!!
Oh well…whatever
I wonder if the Donald Cooke is having a legend built up as a heroic ship ensuring the presence of democracy and western values where ever it goes in challenging situations, to bolster up Turkey, Poland Baltics etc, but perhaps it will be a sacrifice which will increase its legend-watch where it goes next-China seas?
Or a Russian submarine -alledgedly-in Swedish waters?
Being commisiooned in 1998 is it getting past its sell by date so deserves a fate suited to NATO’s political “defensive” plans?
Showing a capability can be aimed at deterrence. Balancing the deterrence effect with the sustained uncertainty until effective use.
Having said that, I don’t think it was in use this time around, apparently bridge sailors knew the bearing of the UFO, or they were merely farting in that opposite direction, despite a correct one.
Who knows?
Because silly bunny they had to reveal it to act as a bucket of cold water to shock das empire into double think about launching the long planned attack. In any event I would guess the EW unit in question ain’t the top of the line model. EMP is for real wars. You know…the big one.?
The US ‘network centric war’ concept is pretty useless if it can be jammed. I guess that is what the Russians have been working on.
I have the impression that they get thier ideas from science-fiction movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3zdRmAuylU&t=107
wOW!!!
It makes me feel safer.
The only problem is, I’m geographically on the wrong side.
But maybe NATO acts a bit more careful in the future and thinks twice.
I hope they will never crack Russia’s secrets.
There you see the difference again: The West acts like Rambo and engages in stupid show-off activities. While Russian scientists and engineers asked themselves: How can we trick systems at minimal cost but with maximum effects.
I saved me this video to disk.
Amazing!
Thanks.
A Saker take on the Nuit Debout movement would be much appreciated.
Lovely!
Just read the Pentagon is highly agitated, that old Russian ‘aggression’ again..
I guess Carter’s moves to get full control over defence won’t be helped either.
There seems to be a good deal of faction-fighting in the US with the common ‘designated enemy’ – Russia – not acting as a hoped-for unifier.
Also read that Brennan (CIA) has said they will refuse to waterboard detainees even if it means defying a presidential order.
Is there a ‘clean-up’ going on?
Where can we see evidence of the April 12 2014 paralyzing events?
On Youtube digiting Khibyny vs Donald Cook!
Yes, I checked out those YouTube cheerleaders. They are showing photos of SU24’s and of the Donald Cook, reading some article from VoltaireNet. Not much to chew on.
Well the Yanks wouldn’t send it back after what happened last time unless they had made a few tweaks, so we can assume this is a retest and the SU-24 was allowed to do its thing while the Yanks give no indication of success or failure, but will probably leak some disinfo later.
Cold War 2.0 cat and mouse.
Do they know we know they know etc?
They didn’t send it back. This last strafing was in the Baltic sea, and was no doubt another unpleasant surprise for them.
Michael
Answer to this manoeuver is found on moonofalabama.org today’s topic (APR 14):
Officials said the CIA has made clear to its allies that the new systems, once agreed upon, would be given to the rebels only if the truce and the concurrent political track toward a lasting peace—Plan A—fall apart and full-scale fighting resumes.
I consider that to be a CIA offer to the “rebels”: Break the ceasefire and you will be rewarded with better quality weapons.
It served as both a 2nd anniversary reminder, & a “Don’t do it!” warning of what will happen if they go out of their way to break this “ceasefire” which never ever was such.
BTW, not that I believe 10% of what he says, but in the “could be” department, I recall an interview listened to on utube a few months ago Jim Willie claimed that the airborne version of this Khibiny is just the smallest MiniMe of the gigantic ship-borne units already in, & then there’s their land-based units that blanket millions of cubic miles of air volume each.
(remember volume of a sphere is 4/3 X Pi X r3, so a radius of merely 200 km is 14.2 million cubic kilometers. Divide by 2 as it will be a hemisphere in the air, center is the station itself.)
can anyone shed light on this from wikipedia:
According to an allegation by a Pentagon spokesman, “The aircraft did not respond to multiple queries and warnings from Donald Cook, and the event ended without incident after approximately 90 minutes. The Donald Cook is more than capable of defending itself against two Su-24s.” In 2014, Russia′s state-run news media outlets, without citing any specific sources of information, ran a series of reports that claimed that during that incident the Su-24, equipped with the Khibiny electronic warfare system, disabled the ship’s Aegis combat systems. The jamming claims were ignored by Western mainstream media. They were dismissed in February 2015 as “nothing but a newspaper hoax” by the Khibiny jammer’s Russian manufacturer KRET website, which asserted that Khibiny was not installed on Su-24 but claimed it was “capable of completely neutralising the enemy radar”.
Yeah, when I want the truth, I head right to wackypedia!
But only after I check all the other ruthlessly truthy sites, like Snopes, the “russian” news sites so many here are in love with, the western media MSM sites etc.
if you want to be a removed, go ahead… however if you did bother to read what I wrote you would’ve have understood I was trying to establish whether the claim made by KRET (who supposedly manufacture Khibiny) is credible.
Russia MoD has a statement about the incident on facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1733023920273690&id=1492252324350852
Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
17 hrs ·
Major General Igor Konashenkov, the Russian Defence Ministry official:
“On April 13, Su-24 crews of the Russian Aerospace Forces were performing training flights over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea.
Route of the Russian aircraft was laid through the region, where the USS Donald Cook was located in (approximately 70 kilometers far from the Russian naval base).
Having detected the destroyer in visual zone the Russian pilots turned away from the ship following all safety measures.
All flights of the Russian Aerospace Forces are conducted with strict observance of the international rules of using air space over neutral water zones.
Frankly speaking, reason for such sensitivity of the American colleagues is incomprehensible. Freedom of navigation of the US destroyer does not abolish freedom of flying of Russian aircraft in operational vicinity to the Russian naval base of the Baltic Fleet”.
This is the bit I like…
Having detected the destroyer in visual zone the Russian pilots turned away from the ship following all safety measures.
From what I have seen, Russian pilot training and maneuvers replicate actual wartime, whereas US training seems to follow occupational health and safety guidelines.
Donald “Cooked”… :-)
I think the actual jamming mechanism for the earlier Donald Cook incident was land based. Probably a much more powerful and mobile system, as shown in that video posted in the thread. The Khibiny aircraft mounted system is likely less powerful, but focussed locally for battlefield use. In the Donald Cook incident I think it was more a psy-ops operation to carry the Khibiny to spread major doubt among the US military. In the latest flybys the Russians obviously had no need to turn anything on so as to prevent any more info being given to the US.
I think you’re right kafkanada.
Russians have demonstrated their talent for psyops time and again.
The smile on the military spotter’s face says: Great flying! Gotta admire that Ruskie Chuztbah !
more of the same hysteria?????
hahahahahaha
MOSCOW, April 15. / TASS /. Russia’s Defense Ministry has rejected the statements made by Dutch Defense Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert two weeks ago in an interview with the national daily NRC Handelsblat.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert claimed in an article on April 1 that Russian bombers systematically violated the airspace of the Netherlands and also urged to protest against the passage of Russian naval ships through the exclusive economic zone of the Netherlands and against Russian military threats to Baltic states.
As Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said, “unfounded, unsubstantiated statements that have unfortunately become a visiting card of some Western politicians again cause bewilderment.”
“First of all, we state officially that there were no violations of the Dutch airspace by the aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Force. Secondly, the stay of Russian ships in the exclusive economic zone of a particular state, including the Netherlands, takes place in full compliance with international law provisions, namely, the UN Law of the Sea Convention of 1982. Thirdly, which specific military threat to the Baltic states is meant? ” he said.
According to Antonov, in her article the Dutch defense minister referred to her rich experience of work in Riga where, as she put it, she had had the possibility to see with her own eyes the existence of these threats.
“However, Mrs. Hennis-Plasschaert does not specify in her article what exactly terrible she saw in those years in Latvia,” the Russian deputy defense minister said.
“In this connection, only one thing has to be noted: such untrue and insulting pronouncements by the Dutch politician addressed to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation testify to the deliberate anti-Russian campaign carried out by the current Dutch leadership,” Antonov said .
More:
http://tass.ru/en/defense/870098
latest extensive article here re both DC’s doings:
http://russia-insider.com/en/boy-burning-deck/ri13950
extract
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What this suggests is that the Polish operation was aimed at Russian submarines below the Baltic surface, while the Donald Cook was testing operations against the Russian shore systems which defend against the US Aegis missiles.
A bulletin from the British think-tank Chatham House in London confirms that the US-Polish operation appeared to the Russian side as an attack simulation against Kaliningrad — and for that reason triggered the Russian response. “The videos and statements released by the US Navy give only a partial picture. The close fly-bys seen on video do not seem consistent with the ‘simulated attack profile’ which the US described the Russian aircraft as flying – but it has to be remembered that much of the Russian bombers’ activities would have been observed while the Donald Cook was tracking them long before they came into visual range. “
Thanks, JJ
An important article by John Helmer on the matter of NATO preparation to attack Russia
(Dances with Bears)
bit more
“The Polish Navy is practising for a US attack on Kaliningrad by guarding the destroyers like the Donald Cook from Russian submarine interception, so “we have been caught provoking the Russians right at our very border. And since we have officially taken part in the surprise NATO military manoeuvre at armed-to-the-teeth Kaliningrad, and that has visibly upset the Russians, we should demand from our American allies compensation for the status of a front-line state, just like Egypt and Israel, which collect $ 3 billion in aid every year.”