Ministry of Defence investigates after shots apparently fired within 500 metres of vessel near Isle of Wight
A couple of days ago the UK seized a shadow fleet tanker so I would assume that’s the reason for Russia to launch this provocation.
Don’t think this will rattle the UK at all when they could very easily delete this ship, but maybe it’s more of a warning to smaller countries without as robust of a navy to try to dissuade them from doing anything against the shadow fleet?
Edit: BBC says that it’s thought unrelated to the seizing. Says that the Russians were doing this shooting and sounding an alarm to tell the yacht to get out of its way while it was drifting towards them in foggy conditions. Also says that this was not in the UK’s territorial waters although it was near them and give a marker on the map.
Didn’t the Russian Navy shoot at British fishing boats believing they were Japanese war ships at one point
Like the Russian Navy has always been a fucked up stack of floating failures
It’s quite possible the yacht was legitimately in the wrong, there’s some absolutely boneheaded sailors out there.
More sabre rattling just to show how big of a cowards they are
I’ve heard that British were not so bad sailors, maybe it’s time to sink some Russian rubbish, innit?
Well… not a supporter of Russia, but if you sail in collision course to a war ship, ignore all the communication attempts (radio and flares), then you should not be surprised to hear a warning shot.
Try to do the same with an US war ship, the outcome will be the same.
The couple took issue with the Russian version of events.
Jane added: “They didn’t send up any flares, they didn’t try to radio us, they didn’t look to us like they were adrift, we were definitely not on a collision course. We were going to miss them. It just wasn’t an incident until the gunfire started.”
According to the couple, it doesn’t match up. I mean they could just be covering their asses, but Russia’s also kind of known for being assholes of late.
In the couples news interview video she said that after the ship hooted 5 times they “altered course 2 degrees, so that they could see we made a deliberate change of course”.
That might be a “miss-speak”, but it’s nowhere near a large enough deflection to let anyone know they have been seen.
If any warship honked at me half way across the channel I’d be turning directly away from them as quickly as possible, under sail or not.
Yeah, it’s entirely possible the people on the yacht were below decks not paying attention.
Spirit of the Kamchatka: smiles knowingly
They probably should have changed course more than 2°
Wait is this the new cursed journey?
Kamchatka 2?
