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Russian Navy stops commercial vessel hijacking |
2021-10-26 |
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. New from a post by Military Informant page in VKontakte According to the Zvezda TV channel, on Monday, October 25, the crew of the Vice-Admiral Kulakov BPK prevented the pirates from seizing a civilian ship in the Gulf of Guinea of ​​the Atlantic Ocean. At about 13:00, a Russian ship received a distress signal from a container ship "Lucia" sailing under the flag of Panama from the Republic of Togo to the Republic of Cameroon. An attempted hijacking of the vessel by unknown armed men in a fast boat was reported. The crew of the container ship took refuge in the engine room. A Ka-27PS helicopter with a Marine Corps unit was immediately lifted from the Russian ship and immediately headed to the area of ​​the incident. When a military helicopter approached, the pirates left the ship, got into a fast boat and headed towards the coast at full speed. The helicopter overflew the ship. Later, an anti-terror group was landed on board the container ship from the VPK "Vice-Admiral Kulakov", which freed the crew and proceeded to inspect the ship. |
Posted by:badanov |
#2 "antisubmarine duties in the Gulf of Guinea" That ought to be easy enough. Although you gotta watch for those Nigerian scamsubs. |
Posted by: ed in texas 2021-10-26 10:26 |
#1 Wikipedia: RFS Vice-Admiral Kulakov is an upgraded Udaloy class destroyer. She is part of the Russian Northern Fleet. Her home port is Severomorsk base. She was tasked with antisubmarine duties in the Gulf of Guinea. She was the flagship of a task force which included the tanker Akademik Pashin and tug Altay. |
Posted by: badanov 2021-10-26 09:34 |