“The damage doesn’t seem consistent with a medium or high speed impact.”
The collision occured at 5knots or less, at an oblique angle. Otherwise that DDG would have been sunk.
For those who wonder: This US ship is the most advanced ship in the world and capable of 40 knots...and turning 180 deg in a mile or less.
That they were hit by a 39,000 ton cargo vessel at any speed shows gross dereliction of duty and abject incompetence.
You said it. Desk duty for this ship’s captain for the rest of his career. Doesn’t matter that he was asleep.