Binoculars dont get hacked. Underway in such waters you would think a warship, with a crew of hundreds, would have lookouts as SOP.
A warship should not be vulnerable to deliberate ramming by a merchant vessel. It is too easy to evade, if it is taking reasonable precautions.
And its course and schedule cannot be easily predicted such that it can be set up by a few deliberately planned ramming vessels - each of these would be passing hundreds of merchant vessels.
Geoff Ziezulewicz
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NEW: Four inj. sailors medevaced to Singapore hospital, 5th didn’t need treatment. Ship to Changi Naval Base. Search for missing 10 ongoing
With the downsized crews of the Obama Navy I’m sure that they have sailors standing watch 24/7 anymore.
2 incidents in such a short period of time doesn’t sound like a coincidence considering all the tension the ChiComs have generated in the South China Sea and Korea.