Ministry of Defence investigates after shots apparently fired within 500 metres of vessel near Isle of Wight

Ministry of Defence investigates after shots apparently fired within 500 metres of vessel near Isle of Wight

  • scutigerEnglish
    9·
    7 hours ago

    The couple took issue with the Russian version of events.

    Jane added: “They didn’t send up any flares, they didn’t try to radio us, they didn’t look to us like they were adrift, we were definitely not on a collision course. We were going to miss them. It just wasn’t an incident until the gunfire started.”

    According to the couple, it doesn’t match up. I mean they could just be covering their asses, but Russia’s also kind of known for being assholes of late.

    • digilecEnglish
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      12 minutes ago

      In the couples news interview video she said that after the ship hooted 5 times they “altered course 2 degrees, so that they could see we made a deliberate change of course”.

      That might be a “miss-speak”, but it’s nowhere near a large enough deflection to let anyone know they have been seen.

      If any warship honked at me half way across the channel I’d be turning directly away from them as quickly as possible, under sail or not.