I think the Skipper of Frettchen is to blame.
You hear "hard to port", then after a while "steady as she goes".
Captain and OOD apparently were on the starboard bridge wing and fixated on Brandenburg.
The Helmsman apparently was too afraid to use his own initiative.
Then they spot Gepard and he orders "hard to starboard".
Even with the current course they might have missed Gepard entirely, with hard to port again by a wide margin, aided by Brandenburg's wake.
But then again, it is not the first time S-Boats have collided and won't be the last.
Frettchen was repairable in Cyprus, while Gepard was transported home on a dock ship.
To replace those two S-Boats, somebody came up with the great idea of deploying two mine hunters (20 knots max) to Lebanon. Racy boats for sure, the Hezbollah will be scared ****less...
We do have a bunch of recently decomissioned 143s, so why didn't they just recomission one or two? At least they have enough to canibalize for the repair of Gepard.
The whole Lebanon mission is really just a summer cruise for idiot politicians and admirals. Did they sofar intercept a single arms shipment?
One of those typical gestures with which our government is playing hero on the international stage while chickening out in reality..
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