“I wish no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way.”
John Paul Jones (1747-1792)
The USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) underway in the Baltic Sea on 12 April 2016 takes the measure of a low-flying Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft.
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