Thanks for posting this. I would like more than anyone to NOT have this the fault of the US Navy crew, but even if this was a deliberate attack (which I don’t think it is) a 30,000 ton container ship should not be able to chase down and ram a 8,000+ ton warship.
Occam’s Razor says this should be human error, and until someone can show in some concrete way it was indeed hostile intent, it should (and always is) treated as a preventable human error accident.
I will refer others back to your post.
Ok, if the freighter was used as a muzzie weapon to ram a ship then they would have had to lure the DDG in close then really hit hard speed wise. To lure in the DDG that close the freighter would have called the DDG on ship to ship radio on channel 13 with a fake emergency. Since the CO was in his cabin it is unlikely they had VHF radio comms with the freighter.