Warship fires on village 'by mistake'

The Russian navy has admitted that one of its anti-submarine ships fired at a village by mistake,

The navy said no-one was injured when a small anti-submarine ship opened fire on a village in the Vyborg region of St Petersburg.

"On the 28 May, a small anti-submarine ship from the Baltic fleet was working on a host of exercises in the gulf of Finland, including artillery fire at aerial targets," RIA quoted a navy spokesman as saying.

"No-one was injured."

Russia's navy has been plagued by a series of mishaps since the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000 in which 118 sailors died.

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TimD...   #7   07:59 am Jun 09 2009

Artilery fire at areial target? wonder if they thought about where warheads go if they miss? not rocket science is it...

ED   #6   07:04 pm Jun 03 2009

Ben, no that's the vodka, same effect

JC of Chch   #5   10:12 am Jun 03 2009

What was the village doing in Russian territorial waters anyway? That's what I'd like to know.

Vodca   #4   09:56 am Jun 03 2009

The comrade had too little blood in his alcohol.

Ben McDougal   #3   07:52 am Jun 03 2009

In mother Russia, Submarine stays still and land moves...

Curious   #2   02:23 am Jun 03 2009

Yeah, but did they at least hit it?

Sasquatch   #1   01:56 pm Jun 02 2009

They fired on a village by mistake AND still missed LOL... They need to take lessons from the Yanks..... now they know how to do Friendly Fire ;-)

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