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A German military helicopter was fired upon by a Russian ship in the Baltic Sea, the latest escalation in tensions between Moscow and the West, a report in German media states.
While they are not meant as weapons, the directed energy and high heat could pose some risk, particularly to aviation. The firing of a flare directly at a helicopter was by a legally civilian ship. Yet on one hand the use of ostensibly merchant vessels to engage in hybrid warfare-style attacks hasThe use of signal flares is a very clear return to the behaviour of the Russian fleet at the height of the Cold War when confrontations with non-lethal techniques were commonplace.former top U.S. Admiral “Bud” Zumwalt Jr.
Such cat-and-mouse games are already well known in the seas around China, where the People’s Liberation Army-Navy coastguard constantly harasses the shipping of other states with dangerous manoeuvres sometimes amounting to purposeful collisions and spraying with high-power firefighting hoses.
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