[The Great RJ]

I can’t figure out that US Navy radar technology wouldn’t have been tracking this massive container ship and sounded some alarm.

[gibsonguy]

I wondered the same. It’s a destroyer, they should be able to see a canoe a mile out. How do you run into a cargo ship?

[Chgogal]

New stealth cloaking mechanism being tested by an enemy?

OR

Major FUBAR?

[RoosterRedux]

It has been reported that Russia has developed a radar jamming technology capable of blinding a ship.

Article.

[Michael.SF.]

I can assure you that the Navy was tracking the ship. while in the Navy that was my son's assignment prior to discharge. The facilities he described for this purpose were very large and complex. What needs to be investigated is how the ship was lost and how it was never picked up prior to the collision.