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Published on Apr 14, 2016

The aerobatics skills of Russian pilots over the US destroyer Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea left the Pentagon and other US official running for cover in Washington over “aggressive close interactions” with Russian fighters jets.
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Releasing the footage of Russian jet flybys in the vicinity of the destroyer, the US Navy said that its vessel has encountered multiple “aggressive flight maneuvers ...within close proximity of the ship,” some as close as 30 feet (10 meters) on Monday and Tuesday.

The set of incidents took place as the US ship, which had sailed from the Polish port of Gdynia, was conducting exercises with its NATO ally Poland in the Baltic Sea. The Navy announced that the SU-24 first flew over Donald Cook on Monday as US sailors were rehearsing “deck landing drills with an allied [Polish] military helicopter”. The numerous close-range, low altitude encounters were witnessed at 3:00pm local time, forcing the commander of the ship to suspend helicopter refueling on the deck until the Russian jets departed the area.

The next day, the Navy said, Russia caused concern among US sailors when a Russian KA-27 Helix helicopter flew seven times over the ship at low altitude in international waters at around 5:00pm. Some 40 minutes later, two Russian SU-24 jets allegedly made a further 11 “close-range and low altitude passes”.

“The Russian aircraft flew in a simulated attack profile and failed to respond to repeated safety advisories in both English and Russian. USS Donald Cook’s commanding officer deemed several of these maneuvers as unsafe and unprofessional,” the Navy said.

Judging by the videos released by the US Navy, the sailors were nonplussed by the Russian aerobatic skills. They gathered on the top deck of the destroyer to watch the Russian pilots.

“He is on the deck below the bridge lane...It looks like he’ll be coming in across the flight deck, coming in low, bridge wing level...Over the bow, right turn, over the bow...” the voiceover on the footage states in what looks more like an instructor’s advice on how to maneuver in open waters, rather than the panic that the central command presented it to be. At least on the video no one can be seen running for cover.

According to a US defense official who spoke with Defense News, sailors aboard the Donald Cook claimed that the Russian jets’ low altitude stirred waters and created wake underneath the ship. US personnel on the American vessels, also claimed that Su-24 was “wings clean,” meaning no armaments were present on the Russian jets that could have posed a threat to US operations in the Baltic.

Yet at the same time, the official noted, that this week's incidents are “more aggressive than anything we’ve seen in some time,” as the SU-24 appeared to be flying in a “simulated attack profile.”

The Russian overflights have caused panic over in Washington, with White House spokesman Josh Earnest calling the actions of the Russian pilots “provocative” and “inconsistent with professional norms of militaries.”

“I hear the Russians are up to their old tricks again in the EUCOM [US European Command] AOR [area of responsibility],” Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Steve Warren said during a briefing on Wednesday, adding that the US is “concerned with this behavior.”

“We have deep concerns about the unsafe and unprofessional Russian flight maneuvers. These actions have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions between countries, and could result in a miscalculation or accident that could cause serious injury or death,” the US European Command said in a statement.

In the meantime Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, thanked the US crew for keeping their cool during the stressful situation.

“Bravo Zulu to the crew of USS Donald Cook for their initiative and toughness in how they handled themselves during this incident,” the admiral said on Facebook.

Russia has yet to comment on the incidents but most likely the Russian air craft flew from the Kaliningrad region, bordering Poland. Kaliningrad is the headquarters of the Russian Baltic Fleet, which also includes the Chernyakhovsk, Donskoye, and Kaliningrad Chkalovsk air bases.

Description Credits: Russia Today

Video Credits: Defense Media Activity - Navy

Obviously different industry, but I have to occasionally do "art tests" in my field when I'm starting work for a new client or studio. These usually involve about a weekend-ish worth of unpaid work to produce a sample of art that's in the style and level of quality they need.
Architects have similar hoops, where they scramble, unpaid, to beat out competition for the lowest bid of work, so that scenario doesn't exactly belong here. I watched the whole thing because it was mildly interesting to see what the point was, but I didn't get anything out of it when it was over. (Other than "wtf is zulu alpha kilo?")

No, no... I think that Macklemore song is awesome in its power.
I meant the whole 30 couples getting married thing with Madonna wailing the background... THAT part was cringe-worthy.
Ever see Scrooged? There's a scene where slimeball TV executive Bill Murray is describing the Christmas ratings-grab stunt where the Pope will bless the entire Zulu nation. The Grammies' stunt seemed like such a similar calculated stunt... more about ratings than a genuine intent to make a statement.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'zulu, clicking, african, orgasms, sandy toksvig' to 'zulu, clicking, african, orgasms, sandy toksvig, trevor noah' - edited by xxovercastxx

I always thought that the language with all the clicking sounds was Xhosa? Maybe Zulu has those sounds too, but the song he mentiones is called "the Click Song" (in Englsih at least) and is in Xhosa
See Miriam Makeba perform it on Youtube: http://youtu.be/2Mwh9z58iAU?t=1m32s

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Thank you Fusionaut Im excited about it!
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Bravo Zulu to you! Huzzah!

[wind noises]

If I could sample the wind, I would loop it

And let my life poem flow over its sacred beats.

Using Kilimanjaro as my djembe I would drum rainbows out of the moonlight and use them as hooks in between verses; verses of little girls spinning ropes in opposite directions, waiting for an opening to jump in.

As the world turns, double dutch, I jump, double time over oceans and back; the water waves and I wave back.

Rippling echoes of "sunshii-ii-iine" - folks get ground in the "sunshii-ii-iine."

But the lightning flaaash three times and its time for the chorus which includes corn bread, candy yams, and all that good stuff, which black folks on Saturn are made of.

As we approach the second verse the roots of trees are plucked from bass lines, which resonate and shake the earth -- devastating everything that's not built in harmony in it.

The second verse is a journey through the ruins of ruined souls; that valued all that was nothing, and nothing of the all-knowing ever flowing wind - which is the undercurrent of this current blowing, the funky drummer from here to eternity.

But even as ruined souls backspin, the wind mills forward and rocks steady 'till the sun hits the fader and the chorus kicks in; then the moon yells "Go!" and we all backspin -- ZULU! As the moonlight shines true blue silvery indigo light my spirit takes flight - because the moonlight is my indigo; indigo ON, to the break of dawn, I rock rock steady steady 'till the early morn, word is bond I'm talking about seeing your nature in nature innate in your nature - New York states of mind did not create ya.

Not until you listen to Rakim on a rocky mountain top have you heard hip-hop.

Extract the urban element that created it and let an open wide countryside let us illustrate it.

Riding in a freight train listening to Coltrane and my reality went insane and I think I saw Jesus; he was playing hop-scotch with Betty Carter who was cursing him out in a scat-like-gibberish for not saying "Butterfingers."

And like the grains of sand, like the seeds of time, the pains of Man, the frames of mind which built these frames which is the structure of my urban superstructure. The trains and planes can corrupt and obstruct your train of thought so that you forget how to walk through the woods which ain't good, 'cause if you never walked through the trees listening to 'Nobody Beats The Biz' you ain't never heard hip-hop.. and you don't stop, and you don't stop, and you don't...

STOP lettin' cities define you, confine you to that which is cement and brick.

We are not a hard peoples, our domes have been crowned with the likes of steeples. That which is our being soars with the eagles, and the Jonathon Livingston seagulls - Yes - I got wings, you got wings, we all got to got wings!

So let's widen the circumference of our nest, and escape this urban incubator -

You see, the wind plays the world like an instrument; blows through trees like flutes but trees don't grow in cement. And as heartbeats bring percussion, fallen trees bring repercussions; cities play upon our souls like broken drums, we drum the essence of creation from city slums - but city slums mute our drums and our drums become humdrum, 'cause city slums have never been where our drums are from - just the place where our daughters and sons become, off-beat heartbeats, slaves to city streets, where hearts get broken and heart beats stop - broken heart beats become break beats for niggas to rhyme on top, but they rhyme about... NOTHIN'.

You don't got nothin' to rhyme about 'cause you've never seen the moon, your styles can't be universal if you're not in tune, with the... [wind noises]

Bravo Zulu!

as a south african, this is a horrible to admit but this is _NOT_ a misrepresentation of african culture. sure it may not be an universal opinion but considering our high rape rate here (1 in 4 women can expect to be raped) I actually find it quite insulting that you guys are comparing this to 'prison rape' or say this claim is racist.

let me fill you in, you have several 'traditional' cultures for whom it's a 'right' to sleep with a women. they are 'supposed' to be raped if they refuse, irrespective of their being lesbian or not. t

his isn't a south african thing tho. it's a 'african' traditionalist culture thing. not a result of 'white' vs 'black' this is just how it's been and what is done , since the time of shaka zulu. (read up on traditional zulu culture , you'll wanna throw up at points and at other's you'll be dreaming of the the nobal savage)

there is a culture "war" that is going on at the moment here.. 'modern' 'westernised' african culture vs. 'traditionalist' culture.

traditionalism is winning just look at who president zuma is , what is attiude is to aids and women. hell, he literally said in court in _HIS_ rape "case" that 'when a women is wares a skirt' she's asking for it. she has no right to deny a man.
and this man is an apartheit war hero , viva le revolution..

i bet i can do someting very few of you can do .. name 6 women in my imidiate every day enviroment that have been raped/gang raped for the sake of raping , no 'justice' no legal recourse ... nothing .. because the cops are way too closely tied to the communities and because they are just as tradtitionalist as the government pretends not to be. no evidence, it goes missing, no treatment because the community clinics think you 'deserved' it. hell, you ever wonder why aids is so high here???

the 2010 viva world cup is going to be truely interesting , i wonder how many of your women are going to be raped and what excuses will be used to explain it away. (american / eurpeans)

I'm with you. Videos should all show the original time they were published. If you're only going to show one time, that should be it. If you need to decide on a time zone they should all use, then go military and make them all zulu time.

I suppose opinions differ.
Racist jokes suck.. and the fact that lots of comedians go for the cheap racist laugh sucks.
I wouldn't know whether the comedians are ^mean, or just ignorant. In this guy's case it looks like ignorance, as evidenced by his blindness to the heckler's point about the Zulu with a bone through the nose.

that said. that woman should have left without a scene.. maybe stood around with a sign outside the show or something. Just cause you think something sucks, doesn't mean you have to ruin it for everyone who feels differently.

Lots of comics make racist jokes. Carlos Mencia and Lisa Lampanelli are two that I can think of off the top of my head. They aren't being mean, they are merely making a joke. Carlos Mencia makes it a point to insult every race, color, and creed as much as possible because he feels we should all be able to laugh at ourselves. He feels that we should all be able to laugh at ourselves because we all have strengths and weaknesses to some degree, might as well laugh about them.

This comic has a job... make people laugh. If one person can't take it for whatever reason then they should leave. I love his Zulu joke BTW.

BTW, I am Italian. I have had my share of Italian jokes - even aimed at me. I laugh. My first name is Marco. I have had hundreds of people say "Marco Polo" when they hear my name. I don't care. I turn it back on them and pretend I have never heard it my life. Then they go off for about a minute trying to explain the (pretty much lame after several hundred times hearing it) joke to me. Inevitably they will mention kids playing Marco Polo in the pool. At that point I jump in and tell them that as a kid I only played "Marco {my last name}" in the pool. The look on their face when they realize that I got them is priceless. Sure I could get mad that someone is picking on my name. Instead I get creative and make their joke far funnier. One person told me that she told her son about it and her son told her, "mom, how can you be so gullible?" That was great to hear.

One of the person that tried this on me was an HR person at my current job. Later when she explained the company's no-name calling policy I threatened to report her for her "Marco Polo" jokes. She knows I am not being serious. I often remind her that I am stopping in later so she can help me fill out a complaint form against her. She still makes Marco Polo jokes. It's funny and we both smile.

Life is short. If you can't laugh at yourself then life will only seem shorter.

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Interesting that you would cite India's fight for independence - Ghandi would disagree with your assessment.


>> ^gorgonheap:
I got one It was called the revolutionary war fought here in America, and also the French Revolution. Oh and India's fight for independence from the British Empire. The Zulu Wars... Lets see any more?...
>> ^Farhad2000:
With regards to a armed militia watching against a unlawful overtake of the government I would like to hear one example when this actually happend?

I got one It was called the revolutionary war fought here in America, and also the French Revolution. Oh and India's fight for independence from the British Empire. The Zulu Wars... Lets see any more?...

>> ^Farhad2000:

With regards to a armed militia watching against a unlawful overtake of the government I would like to hear one example when this actually happend?