certainly modern technology is great and wonderful. But IMO you should not take the human human element out.
We recently had two highly computerized warships damaged at sea, run down by other ships, because, although they had all the modern bells and whistles, they failed to keep a human on watch. They counted on the equipment and basic seamanship took a backseat to the computers. Lives were lost.
We recently had two highly computerized warships damaged at sea, run down by other ships, because, although they had all the modern bells and whistles, they failed to keep a human on watch. They counted on the equipment and basic seamanship took a backseat to the computers. Lives were lost.
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At least we had the HUMANS as scapegoats ... (Probably are/were guilty BUT how much ‘leeway’ were they ordered to allow?)
Nothing new for USN though go back to 1944 and the USS Indianapolis .. skipper basically followed orders and ended up getting sunk....NATURALLY, the CO is ‘wrong’ in a case such as this but the US Govt went so far as to bring the CO of the Japanese Sub to testify against the Indy Skipper....
Cooler heads finally prevailed and the CO was sort of vindicated though he eventually committed suicide.
Then there was the USS Pueblo in 1968......
‘WE’ are out there alone until the SHTF than ‘they’ look for fall guys....