Naval Fleets from all countries, all over the world, carry out flight operations every day, dozens of times each day. It is a STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE for all naval ships to fly the required day shapes and make the necessary radio calls on the Guard Channel prior to and during the period such operations are under way. If the ship commenced flight operations without raising the ball-diamond-ball day shapes, the flight deck crew would immediately question why this was.
The idea that the US Navy would some how intentionally NOT fly the required day shapes while carrying out flight operations, in the hope that a Russian ship would somehow be drawn into charging at them so that the US could make a big deal about it, is just preposterous. Its the sort of mindset I expect to see from Conspiracy Theorists not skeptics. It requires an astonishing level of stupidity and ignorance to believe that something like this would happen.
The is NO QUESTION that the USS Chancellorville was carrying out flight operations. The Russians WILL have been videoing her from their vessel, and if she wasn't flying the required day shapes, or recovering her Helo, it would be obvious on the video, and the Russians would be trumpeting that on RT 24/7/365
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