Do warships have satellite tracking navigation like cruise ships?
Jim can follow his son on a cruise ship all over the world, right?
They have something called a transponder, right?
Do USN have transponder's?
What if the transponder told the shipping world around the USS Fitzgerald, "Here I am hit me"?
What if the container ship turned off his transponder and the bridge didn't respond to radar thinking that it could just be a fishing boat?
Plus I think the container ship was slowing down when it hit ... looks like just a glancing blow to me. If was it going 14 kts it would've cut the Fitzgerald in half.
Plus, now I hear that the collision may have taken place much sooner around 1:30am.
Lot's of questions and no answers yet:
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/19/533432...llision-happen
Quote:
Acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley vowed that service officials would answer the question everyone is now asking: how it could have happened.
"In due time, the United States Navy will fully investigate the cause of this tragedy," he said, "and I ask all of you to keep the Fitzgerald families in your thoughts and prayers as we begin the task of answering the many questions before us."
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