RUSSIA SENDS WARSHIPS TOWARD U.S. NAVY AFTER SYRIA BOMBING
Source: Newsweek
Russia deployed its most advanced Black Sea frigate Friday into the eastern Mediterranean, where U.S. Navy destroyers had launched an airstrike earlier that day against the Moscow-backed Syrian military.
As Russian leadership condemned the U.S.' first intentional attack on the military of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the country's six-year conflict began, Russia's Admiral Grigorovich frigate reportedly left its port of Sevastopol, Crimea, and headed toward the U.S. destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross. The vessels had launched a barrage of 59 Tomahawk missiles early Friday morning against Syria's Shayrat Airfield, which Washington alleged was the origin of a suspected chemical attack on the Syrian rebel-held city of Idlib. Moscow argued the toxic discharge was the result of a Syrian airstrike on a chemical weapons facility used by rebels and has said it would take "a complex of measures" to protect Syrian troops from further U.S. action.
Russia's 4,000-ton warship came equipped with Kalibr cruise missiles, one of Moscow's latest and most deadly high-tech projectiles, and was headed to dock in the Syrian city of Tartus, according to Russia's official TASS News Agency. The ship's movement was also confirmed by Turkish ship spotter Yoruk Isik, who told the U.S. Naval Institute's news agency that the ship had crossed the Bosphorus Strait only nine days after docking from a previous Mediterranean voyage.
The Admiral Grigorovich frigate was involved in joint naval drills conducted Wednesday between Russia and Turkey. Russia's Black Sea Fleet and the Turkish navy trained for both defense and rescue operations in a rare sign of recent cooperation between Moscow and Ankara, which have supported opposing alliances in Europe and the Middle East. Turkey, a member of NATO, has supported insurgent groups in Syria opposed to Assad.
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Does Putin think one ship is going to intimidate our armada of destroyers? Shit, we haven't even dusted off our aircraft carrier groups yet. Their navy is full of Soviet era junk. Here is their smoking tub of an aircraft carrier
It's more a hazard to the environment than a threat to our navy. 
..now he can ask Congress for even more billions for defense, which is exactly what the Military Industrial Complex wants! (They are the REAL "puppet masters"
Greg Palast was right...It wasn't an election, it was a COUP!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512618383
Tin cans. Baaaaaa!
Russia Sends Frigate to Mediterranean Following U.S. Retaliation Strike; U.S. Destroyers Remain On Station
As for the U.S., a Navy official on Friday told USNI News that destroyers USS Porter (DDG-78) and USS Ross (DDG-71) would continue a presence mission in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The ships are part of a quartet of U.S. destroyers that are forward deployed to Rota, Spain to primarily conduct ballistic missile defense operations in protection of Western Europe. However, the proximity of the ships to Syria and the ease of rearming them following Thursday’s strike made Ross and Porter ideal for the mission, the official said.
https://news.usni.org/2017/04/07/russia-sends-frigate-mediterranean-following-u-s-retaliation-strike-u-s-destroyers-remain-station
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Woman commands one of the Navy ships that fired missiles into Syria
The Department of Defense identified the USS Porter and the USS Ross as the two US Navy destroyers that fired Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria on Wednesday in retaliation for the Assad regime's use of nerve agents on its own people.
Commander Andria Slough, a 1998 graduate of the US Naval Academy, is the captain of the Porter. Her counterpart on the USS Ross is Commander Russell Caldwell, according to the web pages for both ships.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/the-observation-post/article/Woman-commands-one-of-the-Navy-ships-that-fired-11056922.php
USS Porter
USS Ross
