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| Tango01 | 03 Aug 2015 10:49 p.m. PST |
"Latvia's National Defense Forces say a Russian naval ship was spotted nine kilometers from the country's territorial waters.
According to the Latvian military's official Twitter feed, the vessel was a Russian mine launcher, the Aleksandr Obukhov, which had entered the country's exclusive economic zone, an area stretching some 200 nautical miles from its shores
The ship, towed by a Russian Navy tug, the Viktor Konieckiy, was observed five nautical miles (nine kilometers) from the Latvian border, which begins some 12 nautical miles from the Latvian coast…"
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| M1Fanboy | 04 Aug 2015 8:28 a.m. PST |
Is it just me, or between this and the Mig intercepts recently, are the Russians getting any with regards to the Baltics? |
| GeoffQRF | 04 Aug 2015 8:52 a.m. PST |
i suppose as long as it was a mine launcher, and not launching mines… |
| Tango01 | 04 Aug 2015 10:27 a.m. PST |
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| Mako11 | 04 Aug 2015 12:31 p.m. PST |
I guess we won't really know for sure, until something goes boom…… With all the activity in the air, and at sea, makes me wonder what else is going on, on land as well, other than the recent, large paratrooper drop in the region. |
| David in Coffs | 05 Aug 2015 3:44 a.m. PST |
Being towed by a tug suggests that it wasn't being very impressively aggressive. |
| Mako11 | 05 Aug 2015 8:02 p.m. PST |
You never know with those crafty Russians…… |
| GeoffQRF | 05 Aug 2015 10:53 p.m. PST |
I notice the text called it a mine launcher, but the photo caption described it as a minesweeper. They strike me as having somewhat different functions? |
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