THE RUSSIANS WILL MOST LIKELY KICK OUR CAN IN A REAL EVENT

Folks - they have the U.S. outgunned in nuclear warhead technology.  They have us clearly humbled in this arena.  NO BUENO!  Sorry if I laugh at our arrogance!  We tell Russia to stay the hell out of the Ukraine's business after we send in operatives to destabilize, then overthrow the Ukrainian government with a pro-NATO junta, and then we send our destroyer over there when they do not do as they are told like good little kiddos (who the heck are we, anyway?) - and then they SCHOOL us.  Our best equipment in our vaunted Navy - how humiliating!  They could have sunk the ship had they wanted.  All they had to do was hit the "for realz" button and it would have been over.  OUCH!!

So when the actual nuking occurs and our pants are down around our waist and we are told bend over......  Folks - not going to be pretty by any stretch of the imagination.  What Spence spoke of is spot on the money.  I have a friend I work with who is a premiere engineer.  The elite among the elite - and he says Russia can kick our can.  He studied at the elite academy over there on an exchange with his college.  He knows their systems and when at they can do.  He also is a very red-blooded American.  But it does not change his frank assessment.  I believe him.

The State Department acknowledged that the crew of the destroyer USS Donald Cook has been gravely demoralized ever since their vessel was flown over in the Black Sea by a Russian Sukhoi-24 (Su-24) fighter jet which carried neither bombs nor missiles but only an electronic warfare device.

On 10 April 2014, the USS Donald Cook entered the waters of the Black Sea and on 12 April a Russian Su-24 tactical bomber flew over the vessel triggering an incident that, according to several media reports, completely demoralized its crew, so much so that the Pentagon issued a protest.

The USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is a 4th generation guided missile destroyer whose key weapons are Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of up to 2,500 kilometers, and capable of carrying nuclear explosives. This ship carries 56 Tomahawk missiles in standard mode, and 96 missiles in attack mode.

Meanwhile, the Russian Su-24 that buzzed the USS Donald Cook carried neither bombs nor missiles but only a basket mounted under the fuselage, which, according to the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, contained a Russian electronic warfare device called Khibiny.

As the Russian jet approached the US vessel, the electronic device disabled all radars, control circuits, systems, information transmission, etc. on board the US destroyer. In other words, the all-powerful Aegis system, now hooked up - or about to be - with the defense systems installed on NATO’s most modern ships was shut down, as turning off the TV set with the remote control.

The Russian Su-24 then simulated a missile attack against the USS Donald Cook, which was left literally deaf and blind. As if carrying out a training exercise, the Russian aircraft - unarmed - repeated the same maneuver 12 times before flying away.

After that, the 4th generation destroyer immediately set sail towards a port in Romania.

27 sailors from the Donald Cook requested to be relieved from active service