The two commanders are expected to fall on their swords. A nod to naval tradition. However what really occurred on those bridges, the failure of all those “state of the art” navigation systems, alarms, poor seamanship etc will never be made public.
As a skeptic to the survivability of surface ships in the modern technological era, how are the defensive weapons supposed to work if simple anti collision devices failed.
I had 19 months on an LST that,if it wasn’t in Vietnam,was often in high traffic areas around Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. State of the art for us ended with a 50’s vintage radar. I probably stood 50-60 watches where I was continually racing from port to starboard wings of the bridge shooting bearings on ships. When relieved after four hours, I was exhausted. The captains standing orders could be summarized as directing us to maneuver the ship into safe waters well before extremis.
“””However what really occurred on those bridges, the failure of all those “state of the art” navigation systems, alarms, poor seamanship etc will never be made public.”””
The October 2017 report was thorough.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/CHINFO/USS+Fitzgerald+and+USS+John+S+McCain+Collision+Reports.pdf