These accidents make no sense to me - I’m wondering if an enemy is using electronic counter measures that are crippling or deceiving our radar and or nav systems. This article is just general boilerplate requests for more funding, which may or may not be needed....
Deception of radar and navigation systems make even less sense than fundamental failures of seamanship. Trained, competent watchstanding on the destroyers would have made such collisions impossible. After in-port OOD qualification, the most basic level of OOD training is independent steaming. The OODs of these ships failed at that.