What happens to Data anyway…sorry but I can’t be bothered to watch the movie cos I don’t exactly like Star Trek but I am curious.

Just been told this. The ‘Saint Peter’ was on excercise with elements of the Pacific Forces planning to stage an amphibious assault on Ostrov Sakhalin which is East of Russia, North of Japan to simulate the “re-taking of the main island from a foreign power”…I assume this means Japan. She was carrying live ammo as part of the assault, the rockets would be used for shore bombardment prior to the “Pubr” beaching. The excercise invloved two other “Pubr”s, two mine warfare vessels (I assume these were “Natya” not the newer “Sonya” type), and two “Polnochony” class landing craft and two frigates of unknown type (will get back to u on that). Given the ‘Saint Peters’ speed and location she recieved the order to intercept the unknown.
The Captain of the ‘Saint Peter’ did it seems try to make contact with the Najin in order to find out what she was doing there but there was no reply.
Also, the Russian Navy has still not offically acknowledged the incident took place but has admitted that a foreign vessel did enter territorial waters on August 8th.

Jonesy, just spoken to my contact. Yes it seems no one else – not in the UK at least – has heard of this but it does appear to be true.
Apparently the “Pubr” WAS the ‘Saint Peter’, she was loaded with rockets and her CIWS’s were fully armed…this seems to be standard practice with CIWS’s on all Russian warships regardless of type. Could it be that the ‘Saint Peter’ was just too close to the Najin, hence the Captain couldn’t target the Najin with rocket?
It turns out one of the Marines on board was injured, not seriously, when a bullet hit his left leg. Hope he recovers quickly.
As far as the Najin is concerned, it seems ur guess is as good as mine. My friend says it is not routine for North Korea to violate Russian territorial waters with fighting ships, but there have been an increased number of spy vessels posing as fishing boats entering the same area (???) which have been “seen off” by Border Guard An-72 “Coalers”.
One “recent” incursion involved a KPAAF fighter of unknown type approaching Russian airspace, the pilot fled when two MiG-29s were scrambled to intercept, this was in November ’02.
Don’t know what is going on there between Russia and North Korea but my friend says everything is normal though several Russia military officals have voiced there concern over the level of instability in Pyongyang.

Russia would wipe the floor with the KPA so I’m not too concerned.

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What do u mean “lost all sense of humour”…u can’t lose what u never had 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

I’m six foot tall with white skin, shaven head, good looks and a good sized body……..f*** with me at your peril!!! 😀

Bloody women sailors….ohhh nooooooooooo, gonna get it for that 🙂

Hey, look on the bright side…least u actually have gas! I live in an all electric flat via a private housing association. Imagine MY surprise when I got a threatening letter from British Gas saying unless I paid my £182 bill they would brake into my home and disconnect my gas supply….you know, the gas supply which didn’t exist in the first place!!! 🙂
Two months after the letter and my stuborn refusal to pay I got a knock on the door from two of BGs henchmen and a police officer who told me I had to let them in to disconnect me. NOW IMAGINE THE SURPRISE ON THEIR FACES when they discovered I had no gas supply to disconnect. Red faces all around I can tell u!!! 😀
No offical apology though, but the henchmen where quite nice.