Were both ships rendezvousing for a surreptitious cargo transfer? The damage doesn’t seem consistent with a medium or high speed impact.
“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.