The United States increased activity in the Black Sea region at the end of October. US Navy ships have been in the Black Sea for several days. The destroyer Porter and the Command and Staff Ship Mount Whitney entered the waters on October 30 and November 4, respectively. Also on November 3, the US tanker John Lenthall arrived in the area. AiF.ru discovered that for & nbsp; ships approached the & nbsp; coasts of the Russian Federation.
Destroyer Porter
This is a destroyer with & nbsp; Arleigh Burke-type guided missile weapons. Porter is equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of 1.6 thousand km and an Aegis (Aegis) missile defense system.
Thanks to the combat capabilities of the Aegis system, destroyers are able to conduct a transient three-dimensional battle (with simultaneous provision of anti-air, anti-ship and anti-submarine defense) in & nbsp; conditions of a high degree of threat from the enemy's side. Additionally, the system is capable of receiving and processing information from sensors of other vessels/planes in the connection and issuing target designations to their launchers. Thus, the system can support the complex air defense commander, although & nbsp; cannot fully automate all air defense functions.
The USS Porter, along with destroyers Donald Cook, Roosevelt and & nbsp; Ross, is affected in a & nbsp; permanent in & nbsp; Europe to & nbsp; Spanish military base of & nbsp; Rota. With & nbsp; Aegis missile defense land bases in & nbsp; Poland and & nbsp; Romania, they are part of the program to build a phased adaptive European missile defense system.
Command ship Mount Whitney
It is considered to be one of the most advanced ACCS ships of the C4I type (English command, control, communications, computers and intelligence & nbsp; & mdash; command, control, communications, computers and information). The JTIDS system, included in the & nbsp; composition of the ship's radio-electronic means, can transmit and & nbsp; receive large amounts of protected data to & nbsp; any point on Earth via various communication channels, & nbsp; including satellite. This technology allows the fleet command to quickly receive reconnaissance information and & nbsp; tactics, and & nbsp; also to control its forces.
It has artillery and & nbsp; rocket launchers, and & nbsp; even machine guns. The & nbsp; ship has landing craft and & nbsp; boats, a helicopter landing strip.
This ship is not the first time it has visited the Black Sea. & Nbsp; October 10 & nbsp; October 10, 2016, he crossed the Bosphorus and & nbsp; entered the Black Sea water area. & Nbsp; 4 & nbsp; February 4, 2014 arrived at the Black Sea standard & nbsp; security planning during the Olympic Games in & nbsp; Sochi.
Mount Whitney. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
John Lenthall Oil Tanker
He is truly a veteran who served and & nbsp; came back again in the & nbsp; system. John Lenthall & nbsp; & mdash; third ship of the Henry J. Kaiser class. It & nbsp; was laid at & nbsp; Avondale Shipyard, Inc. & nbsp; to & nbsp; New Orleans, Louisiana, July 15, 1985 and & nbsp; launched & nbsp; 9 & nbsp; August 1986 & nbsp; year . He served in the US Atlantic Fleet under MSC control until he was withdrawn from active service on November 11, 1996 and placed in reserve. Was reinstated on 7 & nbsp; December 1998 and & nbsp; is in & nbsp; active service in the & nbsp; Atlantic fleet.
The tanker was endangered on & nbsp; 17 & nbsp; April 17 & nbsp; a merchant ship lost direction and & nbsp; collided with & nbsp; another ship before colliding with John Lenthall while in & nbsp; pier undergoing maintenance. No one on board the John Lenthall was & nbsp; injured, and & nbsp; it suffered only limited damage to the external structures and & nbsp; to equipment. & Nbsp; 23 & nbsp; September 23 & nbsp; pirates passed by the tanker, but it was done with warning shots.
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Is it legal & nbsp; USA in the & nbsp; Black Sea ?
US Navy ships can enter the Black Sea, this is permitted by the Montreux Doctrine. The document regulates in detail the passage of warships through the Bosporus and the & nbsp; Dardanelles, placing ships of the Black Sea States in & nbsp; compared to & nbsp; others. The Black Sea Powers have the right to conduct any of their warships across the Strait in peacetime. For warships of powers not belonging to the Black Sea, the Convention sets restrictions on the class, allowing passage through the straits of small surface ships, small combat ships and & nbsp; nbsp; auxiliaries.
The maximum total tonnage of all vessels of foreign naval detachments that may be in transit through the straits, must not exceed 15,000 & nbsp; tons. The total tonnage of military vessels of non-Black Sea states in the & nbsp; Black Sea cannot & nbsp; exceed 30 & nbsp; 000 tons (with the possibility of increasing this maximum to 45,000 tons in the case of an increase in the number of Black Sea Navy countries ) with & nbsp; do not stay & nbsp; more than twenty days.