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What the Hell Is Up With The Navy Lately?
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This is a self-correcting issue. As global warming continues apace, the oceans will get larger and larger. As long as the number of ships stays roughly the same, the oceans will become less crowded and collisions will decrease. You're welcome.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
How hard is to have someone looking towards the sharp end of the ship to look for things in the way?
Might be good to use radar as well
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.
Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it! 
There's a theory that the ship's electronics were hacked. If that's the case then we have a really big problem.
 RE: What the Hell Is Up With The Navy Lately?
August 23, 2017 at 7:52 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2017 at 7:52 am by Gawdzilla Sama.)
I think the Navy has gone low-tech and equipped their ships with rams. Field tests continue.
 (August 22, 2017 at 10:36 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: How hard is to have someone looking towards the sharp end of the ship to look for things in the way? Depending on the weather, there would be lookouts out on deck, or at least on the bridge. Sonar and radar may or may not have been in use, but I would have expected them to be. Kind of hard to miss a tanker. 
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
The course of the ship and surrounding traffic is observed from CIC, Combat Information Center, and this is used at training for The Day. How billions of dollars of radar and computers (counting development) can miss something like a tank is a hard question to answer.
 RE: What the Hell Is Up With The Navy Lately?
August 23, 2017 at 8:54 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2017 at 9:08 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 21, 2017 at 2:24 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: This is a self-correcting issue. As global warming continues apace, the oceans will get larger and larger. As long as the number of ships stays roughly the same, the oceans will become less crowded and collisions will decrease. You're welcome. Yeah, but most of the new ocean we will grain will be very shallow, so we might look forward to a spike in incidence of naval ships running aground. (August 21, 2017 at 1:24 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Things will really look bad if one of our subs crashes. Not long ago USS San Francisco, a nuke sub, run head on into an underwater mountain at 30 knots. Until then, I always thought controlled flight into terrain is a hazard unique to those who don't know what they are doing while above mean sea level. (August 23, 2017 at 8:07 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The course of the ship and surrounding traffic is observed from CIC, Combat Information Center, and this is used at training for The Day. How billions of dollars of radar and computers (counting development) can miss something like a tank is a hard question to answer. The word is McCain lost steering prior to the collision. It is not clear why auxiliary steering was not promptly engaged, nor why the crew did not attempt to steer the ship using differential engine power, as warship crews ought to be trained to do.
Depends on where steering was lost, of course. I helped provide "alternative hydraulic power" a few times when the pumps when FUBAR. River Platte estuary is a fun place for that, btw.
 (August 23, 2017 at 10:22 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(August 20, 2017 at 11:10 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Bet your news agencies didn't mention a NZ navy ship joining the Nimitz carrier group to assist after your other ship was damaged a few months ago? I didn't know they had lakes that big. 
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