The US Navy destroyer "USS Truxtun" enters the Black Sea port (AFP Photo / Anton Stoyanov)
US Warship Truxtun Begins Naval Exercise In Black Sea -- RT
The USS Truxtun destroyer started a one-day military exercise with the Bulgarian and Romanian navies in the Black Sea.
The US military has described the exercise as a "routine" mission scheduled ahead of the Ukraine crisis, which witnessed the Ukrainian opposition forcing the democratically elected president, Victor Yanukovich, to flee the capital Kiev on February 22, a US Naval official told Reuters on Wednesday.
The Truxtun last week participated in drills with Romanian and Bulgarian ships a few hundred miles from Russian forces of the Black Sea Fleet.
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Update: U.S. warship extends drills across Black Sea from Crimea -- Reuters
My Comment: I am unimpressed.
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The US has been trying to impress Iran with its big ships for years. While this technique has been touted as a reason for the US to keep its carrier fleet, it's clearly ineffective, and doesn't have any measurable result except perhaps politically to the American public.
It's another sign of a dying empire. "My ship is bigger than your ship." Playground stuff.
My view of these capital ships has remained the same for the past few years .... they are just big targets.
Exactly, big targets. Missile technology has made large warships obsolete just as the carrier with planes made the battleship obsolete years ago, because missiles have ranges an order of magnitude larger than that of planes.
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