In february 1988 while in the black sea i was a Gunnersmate on the USS Yorktown cg 48 and we where rammed off the coast of the USSR by a soviet naval vessel.
Right at the end you guys hear the comment, "If the 49 didn't screw us up we got it all." He is referring to the AN/SPS-49 air search radar. It was so powerful it often wreaked havoc on things like video cameras of that era out on deck. It would actually trip the circuit breaker of a analog multimeter down on deck when the antenna swept past.
...they BOTH (Yankees and Ivans together) spent BILLIONS of BUCKS to have the most up-to-date, sophisticated military equipment in the world... ...and THEN THEY JUST RAM EACH OTHER! XD :D
2serveand2protect This was a not dull ram, they simply they were chucked out from territorial waters of the USSR (НАВАЛ on Russian). On the Soviet laws, territory was begun with the line of two most jutting out into a sеa edges of bay, and Americans with the light and only correct democracy wanted to swim up on 10 miles violated. Right here that a little watch toy-ship pushed a destroyer. Inflicting to him by the way a damage and losing an anchor. And it worked.
Eric Ericovich ...yeah!... ...the MORE "smart weapons" - the MORE "smart tactics"! :D Dude! I'm just saying that this is IRONICAL - nothing more!... :)
2serveand2protect You are right, but Iron man and other is only in films) And opposition it begins so. My uncle served there. And they executed orders. It was very serious and dangerous.
In 1970 I was on the Independence CVA62. We were entering the Med through the Straits of Gibraltar and a Soviet Missle Cruiser was entering at the same time. They didn't ram us but they came close enough that we could have refueled them.
Only a boat load of children & non-professionals would pull a stupid stunt like that. & their co went along with that? He was probably drunk or passed out. They wouldn't have stood a chance against us back then (if fully engaged) & the same applies at present (especially since remodernization of our military post Vietnam War). Hopefully that ugly scenario doesn't occur
@@carnifexor3010 That missile cruiser stayed with us, just over the horizon, the whole time we were in the Med. There was also a 'trawler" in sight almost all the time. Several times they interfered with us when we were launching and recovering. Thought we were going to sink one that tried to cross our bow when we were doing 30 knots. He got turned to avoid the collision but he bounced of the side of the ship a couple times as we went by.
@@hendragnw26 I think the reason they rammed each other and did things like that is because if they fired a shot that would be the beginning of War but as long as they didn't fire the shot it was fun and games so to say
This game has been played for ages. The USA and the Soviet Union almost went to war over an incident like this in 1973. I was getting married at the time.
@@JayantMathur1987 "Gulf of Tonkin incident?" Really? Do you have any idea where the Gulf of Tonkin is? Are you 12 y.o.? You probably heard those words somewhere and are just mindlessly repeating them, right?? How old were you when you quit school?
@@TheCorrectionist1984 no. When two ships get that close while moving there is actually a cushion of water created between them that will actually push them apart. It takes a very deliberate attempt to have these ships hit one another when side by side. Its just a pissing contest between the two toughest kids on the block.
I wish Yorktown had turned into and swamped them! They use to try this crap when we were transiting to sea, before we could dive the Submarines. I wanted to sink them.
Like they would give away their holy water for that piss... Get to Wilhelmshaven, Germany first, pack some decent beer and try again. Maybe then you'll get Vodka instead of Toilet Water.
Also happened to USS Briscoe DD977 in Med 1984......not rammed, but Soviet ship made an approach on our port side....so close I was able to see the insignia on the officer's shoulder boards. They had bright blue uniforms.
In my mind USS Yorktown is the WW2 carrier (CV-5), from what I've read on the Internet this modern cruiser had an honorable service record but it feels odd to see a relatively small ship baring that mighty name :)
It was two Carriers actually The second one was USS Yorktown (CV-10) of the Essex class Fleet Carriers Named in honor of USS Yorktown (CV-5), lead ship of Yorktown class Fleet Carriers After she was lost at the Battle of Midway (June 4th-7th, 1942)
Mighty name is “Bez-za-vet-nyi”! “Selfless”! The selfless Bravery! Беззаветный по нашему. Беззаветная храбрость! Такая храбрость Российского флота хорошо видна в тексте песни «Врагу не сдаётся наш гордый «Варяг» пощады никто не желает!»
Балдею с этих кадров и для меня нет ничего удивительного. Богдашин настоящий военный хладнокровный капитан, вышли, посмотрели, подумали, зашли и сунули. А визг подняли *исключительные*, просто лажа. Слава ВМФ СССР и РФ! ☝️🇷🇺💪
Lol notice there's a compliment of Russian sailors standing in there finest attire with years of learning and seamanship under there fluffyduck hats, and for what a game of Argy bargy and paint swapping 😳
Political brouhaha that both skippers were able to survive without a "love tap" being turned into a kinetic war. Both crews kept their fingers off the trigger. I hope that all of us can one day enjoy beers and barbecues together.
В то время, в далёкий 1988 год два наших сторожевика вытолкали(навалом) крейсер и эсминец из пределов Черноморских территориальных вод СССР! Американские "ребята" Йорктаун и Кэрон были намного крупнее наших "ребят", но СКР Беззаветный и СКР-6 с заданием справились!
@@alexkessel5980 Флагман вышел? Это хорошо. А у нас в Ленобласти сейчас заметил многих подняли. Инверсионные следы у Питера это норма. Раньше такого не было. Похоже, все в боевой готовности
@@nightlightabcd :) Oh, I am sure you would've taught them Russians how to ram a US ship in Soviet territorial waters. Strangely enough, the ship commander preferred to retreat.
0:20 fun fact: the captain ordered everyone to put on life vests, but the whole crew refused and put on their best uniform to look at them in the eyes as they ram That's the only order they didn't obey, because they were too proud to be seen in life vests in front of Americans
Bahahahaha, what a crock of commie crap, hahahahaha, as if the crew had time to return to their bunks and change kit then get back to their stations hahahahaha.
если кто-то считает что к нему в дом без разрешения входить не надо и при этом этот кто-то имеет средства для защиты, то лучше в такой дом без разрешения и не заходить
Sadly, I believe I would rather live in a time were two of the biggest and baddest guys on the planet were at a stalemate than to live in the time we do now were the world is falling apart.
@@rickolsen2960 If anything, we're living such a great and peaceful time that you can acchieve the decadence that is being being nostalgic about the cold war.
When i was stationed at NAS Norfolk, I worked with a civilain who was an ET on the Yorktown during this. One night while on Eves he brought this video in. He said there was alot of Soviet ships around them in the fog with aircraft flying overhead. His said the problem was that the US recognizes 2 miles out as international waters where as the Russians recognize 12 nmi. Hence the Nudge. On the 2nd hit they dragged the anchor ripping up the gunwale, railing and tearing off a aft Harpoon launcher
Русский дух, это когда стоишь за свою Родину до последнего патрона, до последней капли крови, до последнего вздоха!!! Но, как я говорил, Вам этого не понять. Янки при опасности сразу сдаются в плен!!!
Soviet Krivak II (NATO name) cruiser. Recco features: Lip on the stack, Knife in the back (antenna support), Broken Back (split deck level), Wieney Pack (missiles forward). All rhyme with Krivak.
Александр Чернов Ok, Frigate, whatever. How a navy uses ships is really up to them. They can use an aircraft carrier for coastal patrol if they wish. It's not a matter of "stupidity". b.
Adding, for international purposes, exact tonnage is not an absolute way to classify warships. A destroyer in one navy may be a frigate (smaller) in another, and a cruiser (larger) in yet a third navy. Plus classifications have varied with time.
Remember... the USS Yorktown is built on a destroyer hull (same as Spruance and Kidd Class) and would have been classified a destroyer if not for the 1975 Cruiser realignment.
The US ship broke territorial waters, was not leaving. The only ships called out to deal with it were two puny things; but they did what they could anyways. Brave guys, their little boat could have been destroyed, and they rammed it anyways.
USSR recognized 12 miles, the rest of the world recognizes 7 miles. To keep the USSR honest, the US ran at 7 miles. So the US did nothing wrong. The USSR, trying to be the shit country it is, ran into US ships without provocation. And then lied to its people about it. Saying the USSR was trying to help stricken US ships and got rammed by US ships. Do some research before showing your ass
SgtSeth The UK has always recognized 12 kilometers; as an example, look at Sealand. The US recognizes international law? Sure, I'll buy that; the USSR recognized 12 km (km, not miles! nobody recognizes it in miles), as set by international law; 12 km is about 7.5 miles.
0hn0haha Its not 12 km, its 12 nautical miles (nmi). And its not the UK, its the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, that all UN members observe. I mispoke about the ranges. There is a 12 nmi territorial waters range, but this is normally waived for ships that are passing through from one point to another. This is called "innocent passage". This passage extends to civilian and military traffic alike. Had you read the accounts in the first video, you would have seen this: "In February 1988, Caron operating with Yorktown, entered Soviet 7 miles ) territorial waters limit in the Black Sea off the Crimean Peninsula. Under international law, this act could be permissible if the ship was progressing from one point in international waters to another point in international waters via the shortest course possible, but according to the Soviet Union, it was the right of the USSR to authorize or prohibit travel in selected areas within the 12 mile limit. The United States however did not recognize the Soviet's claim in this case. To prevent it from becoming accepted precedent, the US Navy claimed that it had sailed warships through such areas at regular intervals in the past, which we had, not just two years prior." -ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N4jQhnXrWbg.html
Hey Thanks. I read that its funny how different the Soviets saw it to what really happened during the event. As this and the other videos of the event i have posted show we never turned right or left as they hit us. As a matter of fact as hard as they tried they could not move us. I have always wanted to read or talk to someone on the soviet ships as to their take on what was happening on their ships. if you watch the video we never turned right or left after being hit.
@@AlexeyWoronov Looool, you have no clue what you are talking about. You are watching too much Russia Today and too much Vesti News. You don't even have a real navy. You are poor and weak. You are a vanquished, defeated enemy and your power has receded about 30 years ago.
I think this is actually fun, a game of passive-aggressive display, while both are armed with tons of warhead. A good sign we are at peace for the moment
@@strechemall: Fuck Sweden and Norway. They've typically been the antagonists against Russia up until the turn of the 20th Century. No strategic benefit for America to have Military Pacts with the Eurozone and it's affiliates.
@@josephruiz7233 Norway hasn't fought an aggressive against anyone let alone Russia since the medieval times, I think. And Sweden was permanently pacified by Russia after losing Finland in the late 18th century so idk what you're talking about my guy lol 😆
Looks more like someone underestimated the effect of hull interaction between 2 hulls in close proximity. That close and the larger ship will suck the smaller ship into it. Nobody got rammed.
MegaRussian12 Who the hell wants Russia? Land of slaves and masters, a nation that kills its own people by the hundreds of thousands, a nation of born piers? I won't say 'go to hell, Russia,' because you're already there. That's why you're so full of anger and hate.
Wingalaxi America wants Russia to submit to being a puny country give other nations resources with out a word. America believes that it is the World Police and that's why the U.S. government shove their noses wehre they don't belong and then cry about it when it is attacked.
Not so. Russia is ALWAYS the aggressor. It usually bullies small nations, which I won't list because there are too many. Now Russia is acting the big bully again and causing trouble for everyone else. Russia is one of the world's worst dictatorships with a terrible human rights record, on a par with North Korea and Zimbabwe and it is ruled by an ex-secret policeman who suffers from megalomania. Sort out your own internal problems before blaming others.
Wingalaxi then tell me this why is the US shoving its nose in Russia's problem over Ukraine. Shoving sanctions in Russia's face every time it gets the chance. Ukraine is all the way on the other side of the planet. How would the US felt if Russian gave those two recently cock sucking dead terrorist leaders, Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein asylum and told the US to fuck off. But, they didn't. It wasn't Russia's problem. But the US, it shoves its nose INTO everybody's problems.
Ramming is an age old naval tradition among rival nations that doesn't have the same consequences as gunfire. It's sort of like a friendly punch in the shoulder.
@@alanb8884 No, what happened is the bad guys won. The Soviets bankrupted themselves trying to _help_ countries like Yugoslavia and Cuba, while Amerika fattened by preying on its victims, enslaving entire nations to maintain the military-industrial complex without inciting revolution at home.
@@NoJusticeNoPeace Really? If South Korea, Japan and West Germany were victims of American imperialism surely you can explain why the living standards in countries "liberated" and supported by the Soviets where so incomparably lower. 😏
@@AivarsGegusts Your ignorance of history guarantees I'm wasting my time, but here's a list of countries the US has invaded, not including the genocide of the Turtle Island people: Mexico (1836-1846; 1913; 1914-1918; 1923), (3) Nicaragua (1856-1857; 1894; 1896; 1898; 1899; 1907; 1910; 1912-1933; 1981-1990), (4) American forces deployed against Americans (1861-1865, Civil War; 1892; 1894; 1898; 1899-1901; 1901; 1914; 1915; 1920-1921; 1932; 1943; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1973; 1992; 2001), (5), Argentina (1890), (6), Chile (1891; 1973), (7) Haiti (1891; 1914-1934; 1994; 2004-2005), (8) Hawaii (1893-), (9) China (1895-1895; 1898-1900; 1911-1941; 1922-1927; 1927-1934; 1948-1949; 1951-1953; 1958), (10) Korea (1894-1896; 1904-1905; 1951-1953), (11) Panama (1895; 1901-1914; 1908; 1912; 1918-1920; 1925; 1958; 1964; 1989-), (12) Philippines (1898-1910; 1948-1954; 1989; 2002-), (13) Cuba (1898-1902; 1906-1909; 1912; 1917-1933; 1961; 1962), (14) Puerto Rico (1898-; 1950; ); (15) Guam (1898-), (16) Samoa (1899-), (17) Honduras (1903; 1907; 1911; 1912; 1919; 1924-1925; 1983-1989), (18) Dominican Republic (1903-1904; 1914; 1916-1924; 1965-1966), (19) Germany (1917-1918; 1941-1945; 1948; 1961), (20) Russia (1918-1922), (21) Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999), (22) Guatemala (1920; 1954; 1966-1967), (23) Turkey (1922), (24) El Salvador (1932; 1981-1992), (25) Italy (1941-1945); (26) Morocco (1941-1945), (27) France (1941-1945), (28) Algeria (1941-1945), (29) Tunisia (1941-1945), (30) Libya (1941-1945; 1981; 1986; 1989; 2011), (31) Egypt (1941-1945; 1956; 1967; 1973; 2013), (32) India (1941-1945), (33) Burma (1941-1945), (34) Micronesia (1941-1945), (35) Papua New Guinea (1941-1945), (36) Vanuatu (1941-1945), (37) Austria (1941-1945), (38) Hungary (1941-1945), (39) Japan (1941-1945), (40) Iran (1946; 1953; 1980; 1984; 1987-1988; ), (41) Uruguay (1947), (42) Greece (1947-1949), (43) Vietnam (1954; 1960-1975), (44) Lebanon (1958; 1982-1984), (45) Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011), (46) Laos (1962-), (47) Indonesia (1965), (48) Cambodia (1969-1975; 1975), (49) Oman (1970), (50) Laos (1971-1973), (51) Angola (1976-1992), (52) Grenada (1983-1984), (53) Bolivia (1986; ), (54) Virgin Islands (1989), (55) Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003), (56) Saudi Arabia (1990-1991), (57) Kuwait (1991), (58) Somalia (1992-1994; 2006), (59) Bosnia (1993-), (60) Zaire (Congo) (1996-1997), (61) Albania (1997), (62) Sudan (1998), (63) Afghanistan (1998; 2001-), (64) Yemen (2000; 2002-), (65) Macedonia (2001), (66) Colombia (2002-), (67) Pakistan (2005-), (68) Syria (2008; 2011-), (69) Uganda (2011), (70) Mali (2013), (71) Niger (2013). Note that this does not include countries where the US just dropped bombs all over marriage ceremonies and aspirin factories. As for the standard of living of ex-Soviet countries, despite 50+ years of bullying by the US, they have some of the best medicine and education on the planet, with a literacy rate far above the US's, and an infant mortality rate far below.
USS Caron (DD-970) Водоизмещение: 8040 тонн USS Yorktown (CG 48) Водоизмещение: 9600 тонн VS СКР «Беззаветный» Водоизмещение: 3200 тонн СКР-6 Водоизмещение полное, 1140 т Моська и Слон
Much respect from a former American Naval Devil to the Former USSR and present day Russian Navy. Many were the times we saw Soviet ships out gunned and out classed performing acts such as this one the world over. From ramming with Frigates to Bears flying low overhead with 2.5 Megawatt Tracking radars throwing sparks in the cockpit visible on the ground. What Mother Russia never had in Technology has never stopped them from Guarding their borders. I hope one day we can forget all of this foolishness and work together. We have more in Common then EITHER of us has with China or the Middle east. PS, the harpoons were tracking you from 70 miles out, the 5 inch had a round ready in the chamber and the CIWS would'a put a track so deep thru you we would have been able to see daylight thru. Dont doubt our resolve either.
In 1997 the Yorktown had been fitted with computers that run every aspect of the ship. A crew member entered a 0 into the ship's database. The computer tried to divide by it and you cannot divide by zero causing the ship to shut down completely and float dead in the water. The ship had to be towed back to port and the computers had to be repaired.
The cold war was dope, like imagine the guys you dislike and constantly threaten yadayadayada iron cutain, sails one of his ships up to yours and the guys you have political tensions with are right beside you just checking out your ship
When performing an at sea replenishment a highly dangerous maneuver, a suction between the two vessels a great possibility. There is a known history of vessels colliding when their distance between them closes.
The last time I seen the Yorktown ship it was leaving Yorktown naval weapons station getting loaded up with. ammo and cruise missiles just before it left for deployment and this episode
My father in law served on royal navy aircraft carriers 1963 to 1972 and he has told me stories of soviet ships coming along side so that sailors could trade goods, russian vodka for british chocolate or coca cola ect. Nothing like this though
Not all Americans indeed, just Pindosy or Unitedstatians because America is a cointinent with a lot of countries from Canada to Argentina. Hence the Organization of American States is an International and not a US one.
@@carl-os4603 hi, I do not care what you think, and the Russians are a failing nation with 90 pc living like poor farmers. Good luck to you, and stop smoking Crack .
Really? Oh I am sure the Americans were sooooooooo afraid of this Soviet ship ramming them. Still a bigger loss would be to Soviet Union since they overall had fewer boats and less money.
Рашен лапти попробуйте сейчас своим дымящим хламо Кузей и его сопровождением, также пресонуть одну из авианосных групп США. Получите по самые не хочу. Судя по видео корабль США намного больше лаптевых и если бы амеры несколько раз толконули совковых, то их тазик пошел бы на дно.
Ты прав, доблестные украинские воины уже получали по мусалам от донецких алкашей и шахтеров и молча все схавали, так и американцы обосравшись пошли подмываться..
@@user-tp4yc4mp1z Максим, вот у тебя скорее всего ненависть к СССР или к русским (хотя связи нет между ними) но, зачем ты выглядишь дураком? Или ненависть тебе мозг пережимает и ты перестаешь думать головой? Сторожевой (пограничный) корабль и не будет большим, его задача охрана государственной границы, а не плавание по морям и океанам. По поводу если бы американцы толкнули бы. Это война. И ты бы сейчас не писал тут на ютубе, а тебя бы или не было на свете или, если ты уже был в те года, просто превратился бы в пепел. Ну в самом деле, голову то включать надо.
@@KlontirЧудила косящий под Вангу, откуда ты плешивое знаешь, что было бы со мной. (родился в конце 1970х). Я тогда жил в небольшом ПГТ. Смотрю, ты такой трусливый, если боишься войны. Ядерных ударов уверяю не было бы, с обеих сторон бонзы понимали, что они могут привести к вымиранию ВСЕГО человечества.
As on my comment, on the USS CARON ramming, in the black sea, at the same time, the Russian captain, again, had the starboard anchor slightly out, 2:12, and the port anchor out, on this ramming, to do more damage upon ramming.
Ha ha, and why did USS CARON insist on entering USSR territorial waters, thousands of miles from U.S. territory? Wouldn't US Navy do the same should any foreign state military vessel be heading towards its territorial waters? You guys completely lack sense of context, it seems.
