“It used to be that AGIs would deploy regularly off their ports and we would encounter them and they would operate very safely and professionally — mostly looking for signals intelligence,” Bryan Clark, a naval analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and former aide to retired Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert, told USNI News. Russia has sent a specialised spy ship off the coast of Ukraine with the suspected mission to monitor the US Navy led 'Rim of the Pacific' 2016 exercise says the US Naval Institute . Though its presence has not impacted on the exercise, it is considered unusual since actions like this have not been seen since the Cold War when Crimean spy ships used to linger off the coast of the US to pick up signals of US intelligence information. Ever since the seizure of the Crimean region of Russia in the next few years , Russia 's the US Navy has been operating in an increasingly more aggressive stance.
Russia has sent a specialised spy ship off the coast of Ukraine with the suspected mission to monitor the US Navy led 'Rim of the Pacific' 2016 exercise says the US Naval Institute . Though its presence has not impacted on the exercise, it is considered unusual since actions like this have not been seen since the Cold War when Crimean spy ships used to linger off the coast of the US to pick up signals of US intelligence information. Ever since the seizure of the Crimean region of Russia in the next few years , Russia 's the US Navy has been operating in an increasingly more aggressive stance.