[kingu]

Could you please explain the hack that causes sailors on a US warship to miss a radar signature that can be picked up on the horizon, a visual on the tanker at no less than 15 miles? We start issuing Navy personnel VR headsets instead of binoculars? Not to mention sonar which can hear the screws beyond the horizon.

Put aside the fantasy; let's deal with the reality of ship captains and OOD’s who are playing chicken with craft that are slow moving and non-maneuverable. We're getting hit by concrete walls which the warship had no business being within a half mile of.

[canalabamian]

Could you please explain the hack that causes sailors on a US warship to miss a radar signature that can be picked up on the horizon, a visual on the tanker at no less than 15 miles?

Could be a combination of issues. Discipline/professionalism/training, etc.

Looking at the cargo ship's track prior to hitting Fitzgerald, I wonder if its navigation system was hacked. GPS spoofing recently occured in the Black Sea. Spoof the Fitzgerald's position while "guiding" the cargo vessel into it.

I suspect that there are several issues at play in all four USN collisions this year. My bet is that they are all progressive, and not merely coincidence. $.02