Originally Posted by
Water pilot
I think some caution is in order, after all our glorious Navy managed to hit an oil tanker with one of their stealth high tech destroyers with the best radar technology in the world. To be fair, oil tankers are pretty small targets to detect on radar, unlike islands and continents and whatnot. The tanker was broadcasting its position on AIS and the destroyer wasn't (the navy and coast guard don't seem to believe that we need to know where they are, but man they get bent out of shape if they don't know where you are.)
And don't forget it was only a month or so after the USS McCain's cousin the USS Fitzgerald tangled with a container ship after failing to give way. Doesn't give you a great deal of confidence they can properly identify and react to threats displayed on their systems if they can't even avoid a threat they see out the bloody window...
