bump (no pun intended)
“...you’ll notice an area of severe damage which looks to me to be from an impact at a perpendicular angle,...”
That is to say, she T-boned.
Savage was ranting today that it was a Filipino crew with ISIS members.
Was John F. Kennedy IV the captain of the destroyer? Looks like a result that JFK I could have attained.
I’m an old Army guy (and landlubber) who knows nothing about ocean going vessels...military or civilian.I’m wondering which,if any,Navy personnel might be subject to discipline as the result of this incident if,by chance,it becomes evident that the tanker was at fault?
Last night over at American Thinker the feedback had determined that it was North Korean backed Jihadis who had used a container ship to sneak up on an alert destroyer. They determined this from unsubstantiated conjecture. Pretty neat. Worthy of the FR!
From comments by Matt Bracken at source:
Matt Bracken17 June 2017 at 20:04:00 GMT-4
One theory: sea jihad. Third Mate Muhamid Pongo on duty. Realizes from AIS they just passed a USN “kafir infidel” warship. Makes a U-turn on his own. Looks at the CPA plot, uses it in reverse to create a collision. Last few minutes, lies on the ship to ship radio. (Taqiyya/Kitman, “Holy Lying.) “Don’t worry captain, I’m turning to port, you turn to starboard.” (As he turns to starboard.” Next on the USN recording, which, following Orlando Pulse night club protocals will be kept secret from the world: “Allahu Akbar!”
Just a theory. You come up with a better theory for the container ship’s U-turn and collision course.
I’m sure State Farm will get it straightened out as to who did what.
I automatically assume the warship to be at fault because container hips being large and ungainly are presumed to have he right of way but that animated track shows the container maneuvering with much more agility than I would have expected. It maybe confounded the warship skipper as to its course.
I think that the timing is the issue. My guess is once they sort it out, the freighter was going along smoothly till it hits the Navy ship and then has that strange pattern until it resumes it’s path the Tokyo. It makes no sense to suggest that this was in anyway intentional, that the ship was circling looking for a navy ship. In the middle of the night in the complete darkness, does not make sense. Further, nothing from the neighbor he suggested they felt threatened by the freighter traveling up the coastline. I suspect the both crews were simply not paying attention.
Doesn’t show anything. Are the tracks that are coming back to the scene of the collision? That is what it looks like to me because there is no impact time on the tracking.
Was a muzzle steering the freighter???.....hmmm...that “might” be the answer.
Very interesting but of course it would be much more informative to see the tracks of both ships.
If one looks closely, one will see the container ship was fitted with one of those protrusions just under water from the bow of the ship. Do you have any idea what that would have done to the destroyer in a perpendicular collision?
This site is reporting unadulterated bullshit in an effort to get dumb people to click the link.
The DDG was NOT T-boned. It hit at an oblique angle and only the left side of the merchant was damaged.
It also hit at low speed, as evidenced by the fact the DDG was not sunk.
USS Fitzgerald has the best navigation technology on earth. How was it possible? Was the watch captain out having a joint on the starboard side and didn’t notice the Philippine cargo ship? Or, did this cargo ship ram the Fitzgerald on purpose?
The Crystal owners needs to be investigated. A U turn is an attack. It was aggression and the families should sue the company.