Who could argue with this unnecessary billboard of HTML that just screams “I am the BIGGEST Bull in the pasture! OOH RAH!” I had already backed off because I can not reveal my source. No need for this. But since you decided it necessary to bring so much attention to it let me share this...
There are things you do not know about the TRUE course of the Fitzgerald BEFORE this happened. And in no way will I ever believe that an Arleigh Burke class Destroyer allowed it’s self be ran over by a SLOW BARGE on a STEADY COURSE manned or unmanned.
Speaking of UNMANNED... Were every one of the FIVE PRIMARY DETECTION SYSTEMS on this very sophisticated war vessel OFF? Or were these ALL UNMANNED? I say they were not off and they were not unmanned. There were unknown operations in place.
There is more to this we are not being told... Something is obviously wrong with this whole picture my friend.
USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62)
Arleigh Burke class Destroyer
Sensors and processing systems:
AN/SPY-1D 3D radar
AN/SPS-67(V)2 surface-search radar
AN/SPS-73(V)12 surface-search radar
AN/SPG-62 fire-control radar
AN/SQS-53C sonar array
AN/SQR-19 tactical towed array sonar
AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III shipboard system
Don’t be too hard on TXnMA on this, he has spent a lot of time researching it, and I think his analysis is some of the best out there.
Using HTML formatting is a necessity in trying to convey complicated data, IMO, and this whole scenario has a lot of data elements.
Without rehashing it all, I doubt it is a plot of any kind. It was a sad failure of leadership. As someone who grew up in a Navy family and did a tour myself, it saddens me to think of it, because in the end, it was a bunch of people asleep at the wheel.
Bottom line, all that great equipment is no good if people aren’t appropriately trained and led. And they weren’t.
Both you and TXnMA want the truth out of this, and it is why things like FR are really valuable to us.