The warships of the USA and Russia almost collided: the parties accuse each other. VIDEO

Russia and the United States accused each other of dangerously approaching their warships, which almost ended in a collision. The participants in the incident in the East China Sea were the American missile cruiser Chancellorsville and the Russian large anti-submarine ship Admiral Vinogradov.

Dangerous convergence. Photo: Twitter screenshot

The Russian military said that the maneuvers of the American cruiser almost led to a collision with a Russian ship, writes Air force.

“The incident occurred on Friday at 6:35 Moscow time in the southeastern part of the East China Sea while a detachment of ships of the Russian Pacific Fleet and a US Navy aircraft carrier strike group were moving in parallel courses,” Russian media quoted the press service of the Russian Pacific Fleet as saying.

The report also notes that the cruiser Chancellorsville suddenly changed direction and crossed the course of the Admiral Vinogradov BOD 50 meters from the ship, and the Russian crew performed a forced emergency maneuver.

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“On an international wave, a protest was lodged with the command of the American ship and the inadmissibility of such actions was pointed out,” said the press service of the Pacific Fleet.

In turn, the American side placed responsibility on the Russian sailors, calling their actions “unsafe and unprofessional.”

“While in the Philippine Sea, the Russian Udaloy-class anti-submarine ship performed an unsafe maneuver towards the cruiser USS Chancellorsville,” US Seventh Fleet spokesman Clayton Doss said.

Cruiser Chancellorsville. Photo: Twitter screenshot

He called the statements of the Russian military propaganda. According to him, the Russian ship approached the Chancellorsville at a distance of 15-30 m.

Both parties hold each other responsible, calling their opponent’s actions unsafe. In addition to the different statements of the incident, the geographical location also differs. The US military claims that this happened in the Philippine Sea, and the Russian insist that in East China.

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In the official accounts of the American Navy, a photograph of the rendezvous of two ships appeared. The US military earlier told the TV channel that they wanted to declassify the photo of the incident in order to prove their case. Then the photo was distributed by other agencies.

The US Navy released two videos of the incident, which show the dangerous approach. The report states that the cruiser Chancellorsville had to make a dangerous maneuver to avoid a collision.

BREAKING: #USNavy has released video of #USSChancellorsville being forced to maneuver to avoid collision #Russian UDALOY I made an unsafe and unprofessional approach to the Phillippine Sea, June 7th. (2 / 2) pic.twitter.com/bM9ZHuYSUM

- US Navy (@USNavy) June 7, 2019

BREAKING: #USNavy has released video of #USSChancellorsville being forced to maneuver to avoid collision #Russian UDALOY I made an unsafe and unprofessional approach to the Phillippine Sea, June 7th. (1 / 2) pic.twitter.com/HpmAMtYraS

- US Navy (@USNavy) June 7, 2019

US signal?

In an interview with CNN, retired captain Karl Schuster, who served in the US Navy, said that this excesses are unusual because they occurred far from Russian territorial waters.

“Usually the Russians disturb our ships when they are in waters that Russia considers to be its sphere of influence - the Black Sea, the Barents Sea, the waters off Vladivostok. It is obvious that Putin has given orders to the Russian Navy to put pressure on American ships whenever possible. Perhaps this was a show of solidarity with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his visit to Russia. Although, most likely, this is a signal that Russia is ready to challenge the supremacy of the United States on the world stage and on the seas,” CNN quotes him as saying.

This is not the first time that the military of the two countries report dangerous encounters with military equipment. 4 June Russian Su-35 three times in three hours intercepted a US anti-submarine patrol aircraft Boeing P-8 Poseidon over the Mediterranean Sea, said the command of the US Sixth Fleet.

The military noted that the first and third approaches were safe, but the second was not because the Russian plane made a high-speed pass in front of the American plane, putting the lives of the pilots at risk. The second interception lasted 28 minutes.

According to the American command, despite the fact that the Russian aircraft was in international airspace, its maneuvers were irresponsible.

“Unsafe actions increase the risk of miscalculation and the likelihood of a mid-air collision,” it said.

Ship characteristics

Missile cruiser Chancellorsville (CG-62)

• Total Displacement - 9800 t
• Length - 173 m
• Maximum speed - 59 km/h
• Crew - 30 officers and 300 sailors

Armament:

• Two installations of vertical launch of guided missiles MK 41
• Eight Harpoon anti-ship missiles
• Two 127-mm Mark 45 guns
• Two 25-mm machine gun MK 38
• 2-4 heavy machine gun Browning М2
• Two Phalanx CIWS anti-aircraft artillery complexes
• Two torpedo tubes Mark 32
• Two helicopters

Large anti-submarine ship "Admiral Vinogradov"

• Total Displacement - 7500 t
• Length - 163 m
• Maximum speed - 54 km/h
• Crew - 293 person

Armament:

• 2 × 4 missile-torpedoes PLRK "Rastrub"
• Two 100 mm AK-100 single-barrel artillery systems
• Two 45-mm semi-automatic universal guns 21-K
• Four X-NUMX mm AK-30 artillery mounts
• Two rocket launchers "Smerch-2"
• Two Kinzhal anti-aircraft missile systems
• Two torpedo tubes PTA-53
• Two helicopters

Jonathan Marcus, BBC correspondent on defense and diplomacy:

Two warships, two different stories, but one real possibility of an incident and possible human casualties. There is no excuse for bringing such size vessels closer together.

One of them—or perhaps both—was wrong. Both sides blame each other. But such incidents are occurring more frequently, and overall appear to be the result of a coordinated Russian policy to provoke action at sea by the United States and its allies at every opportunity.

Often these incidents occur in the Black Sea, which Moscow sometimes regards as its reservoir. The Black Sea countries that are members of NATO or want to join there do not agree with this opinion.

In the Asia-Pacific region, similar incidents between Russia and the United States occur less frequently. Usually, friction occurs between American and Chinese aircraft and ships. But wherever it happens, such an injection of the situation is dangerous and inappropriate.

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