WASHINGTON – The United States Navy has released video footages of what itclaims is “an unsafe manoeuvre” by a Russian anti-submarine destroyer,which came within 50 metres of its guided-missile cruiser USSChancellorsville near the South China Sea on Friday.
The footage shows the Russian Pacific Fleet’s anti-submarine destroyerAdmiral Nikolai Ignatevich Vinogradov almost colliding with USSChancellorsville, in yet another incident of interception by the twomilitaries.
According to the US Navy the USS Chancellorsville was operating in thePhilippine Sea when “at approximately 11:45 am on June 7 (9:05 am Friday,in India) the Russian destroyer (Udaloy I DD 572) made an unsafe manoeuvreagainst USS Chancellorsville (CG-62), closing to 50-100 feet putting thesafety of her crew and ship at risk”.
The Americans claimed that “USS Chancellorsville was recovering itshelicopter on a steady course and speed when the Russian ship DD572manoeuvred from behind and to the right of Chancellorsville accelerated andclosed to an unsafe distance of 50-100 feet”.
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“This unsafe action forced Chancellorsville to execute all engines backfull and to manoeuvre to avoid collision,” the US 7th Fleet said in astatement. USS Chancellorsville is a guided-missile cruiser of US CarrierStrike Group 5 under the 7th Fleet.
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