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asked, "A software update on ships... is largest military operation in thousands of years?
Bigger than the Manhattan Project?"

Stroking themselves. It was important as our whole navy and air force was literally worthless as foreign advisories and Terrorist could crash any ship or plane they wanted at any time.
Ever wonder what would happen if we didn't have a navy and Air force? It happened and lasted for years. They where running a sh.. show for years. Acting like everything was fine blaming them on "accidents" and good officers errors.

The strokers likely to this day doesn't know how the software works. IE: magic to them. They made firewall software.

Odd - it used to be during Reftra (refresher training assessment) on a ship one of the things they would do is eliminate all the electronics and force the crew to go back to basic manual things such as line of sight/celestial navigation, semaphore/flashing light comms, manual/gas powered pumps, hand loading munitions, etc...I’m guessing since training has supposedly gotten so bad that they’ve since abandoned a lot of the basic backups.

Y'all do know that it is NOT possible to "hack" a ship, of any flavor, via the internet. There was ONE ship, deliberately setup (a test bed) so as to allow external control via the internet, and even that did not work well.

That's NOT how ships work. It was considered 'Amazing' when some ships were able to control the ship's speed directly from the bridge instead of through the Engine Order Telegraph of the Lee Helm.

US Navy ships are designed to still be functional when all the technology goes to hell. In the 1921 an early US submarine, USS R-14 (SS-91) got stranded at sea for lack of usable fuel while searching for a missing tugboat, USS Conestoga. There was not enough power left in the batteries to call for help on the radio.

So what did they do? They sewed together hammocks and blankets and sailed the submarine back to Pearl Harbor. Yes, they sailed a submarine. FWIW - the CO of the submarine was Lieutenant Alexander Dean Douglas, USN, shown here in the top left, without a hat.

For the achievement and spirit of innovation, Lieutenant Douglas received a letter of commendation from his Submarine Division Commander, CDR Chester W. Nimitz.

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