Today, 42 years ago, on November 18, 1983 (October 14, 1983), two USSU destroyers collided in the Gulf. On November 18, 1983, a Soviet missile destroyer collided with a US Navy destroyer in the north of the Gulf, and the USS was slightly injured. This was the Soviet destroyer near the U.S. Navy, which collided when the U.S. Navy tried to block it. A US Department of Defense spokesman accused the Soviet Navy of increasingly approaching foreign vessels of "harassment."