Well, Navy wheels are saying were lucky this doesnt happen a lot more often.
Retired navy officer who served on that destroyer called in to Savage radio. Said their report was BS. Aegis and 7 other radar systems should have been going crazy. He said there is no way a merchant ship can hit a destroyer unless the destroyer put itself in a position to do so as if on purpose. One system picks up and monitors every ship within 64 miles.
Then, a retired electronics contractor called in and said he had helped install his cos radars, sonars etc in that boat. He said every system has a backup and every back up has backups.
He also installed the radar sonar etc on the USS Stark that was hit by Iraqi missiles. The protections were supposed to be on automatic since they were in hostile waters. The CO had the systems manually maned instead an sailors ignored warnings.
Both guys say there is no way in hell either ship should have even been remotely in danger with their electronics and no way that big thing could get to it if it wanted to.
As Savage says, if the can defend against that, how can be protected from missiles or speed boats with explosives?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_(FFG-31)
Last edited by jaguartx; 06/19/17.
