To: GATOR NAVY
How does that happen? It isn’t like they can’t see each other.
4 posted on
10/27/2009 7:45:29 PM PDT by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: freedumb2003
Entirely the destroyer’s fault, from what I can see.
6 posted on
10/27/2009 7:47:19 PM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(No Representation without Taxation!)
To: freedumb2003
That’s what everyone asked when the USS Belknap ran into the carrier Kennedy.
17 posted on
10/27/2009 8:00:52 PM PDT by
stuartcr
(If we are truly made in the image of God, why do we have faults?)
To: freedumb2003
How does that happen? It isn’t like they can’t see each other.Trust me, at night, in a narrow waterway, with the shore as lit up as it is here, it can be harder than you might think to track another ship's running lights. But that's where radar comes in as an aid.
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