Is someone hacking our 7th Fleet? Navy to investigate after USS John S McCain collision

Fox News ^ | 22 Aug 2017 | Edmund DeMarche

[i_robot73]

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One would think that as a contemporary warship of the United States Navy we would be aware of every ship, boat, dinghy, canoe, kayak, paddleboard, surfboard, swimmer, airplane, drone, and seagull within one hundred miles of our technically-advanced fleet.
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Technology can only compensate for ignorance\stupidity so much

[huldah1776]

With the schmuck in the picture’s budget cuts, how many ships are being repaired? One article I read today said they are looking into the steering having failed, including the back up.

[USCG SimTech]

Aegis system ships have CIC relay recommendations to the conning officer on the bridge. The CO (master) or the designated ship driver (conning) uses the rules of the road that is based on visual bearings, visual bearing drift and target aspect to make the final determination for risk of collision. The assigned conning officer, might be the CO or OPS even, issues the commands to the helm and the lee helm (throttle) for all maneuvers. The human ship driver is in control of the ship, not electronics. Although there is this last resort mode of operation...

[trebb]

It seems too much of a coincidence for two of our ships to be disabled by civilian vessels in the same general area.

[KeyLargo]

Marine Commandant Orders Operational Reset for Aviation Units
UNITED STATES
08.11.2017
Courtesy Story
Office of Marine Corps Communication
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General Robert B. Neller, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, directed U.S. Marine Corps aviation units to conduct an operational reset for a 24 hour-period where no flight operations will take place but no operational commitments will be impacted.

This operational reset will occur within the next two weeks and will be taken at the discretion of commanders, based on their unit’s operational commitments, to focus on the fundamentals of safe flight operations, standardization, and combat readiness. The intent is for flying squadrons to review selected incidents which occurred enterprise-wide and study historical examples of completed investigations in order to bring awareness and best practices to the fleet.

Pauses in operations are not uncommon and are viewed as a responsible step to refresh and review best practices and procedures so our units remain capable, safe, and ready.

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/244648/marine-commandant-orders-operational-reset-aviation-units

[D_Idaho]

Some ships are doomed by their names. It is known.

[wildbill]

It is simply inconceivable that US Navy warships with the best radar money can buy are running into ships in crowded sea-lanes. That would mean no one on the bridge is minding the store. That’s virtually impossible!

If it is happening at night, a hacked computer or radar might be the answer.

[Titus-Maximus]

If I had a Navy ship on the seas it would have 24 hour human surveillance on all sides. After the Fitzgerald collision I canot understand how the command of the McCain allowed this to happen. Put a flockin guy on deck and watch the ocean, how hard is that. How could you let this happen twice?

[vetvetdoug]

Too much reliability upon the electronics and not enough on just basic seamanship. They don’t even teach Celestial navigation at the Naval Academy anymore. Years ago, I repeated what General Wainwright said around 1949 that elimination of the cavalry and horsemanship would come back to haunt us. Fast forward to Afghanistan and the Mountain Division and FAC had to learn horsemanship because mechanized land based vehicles and helicopters could not navigate the landscape. I wish I could make the Army officers and USAF officers that ridiculed me eat their words.

[upchuck]

If the ship was hacked, and maybe it was, we’ll never know about it.

[upchuck]

:)

[arthurus]

The thought that our captains and navigators are putting their ships on autopilot and then going to the wardroom to watch TV or play cards is absurd. If it is happening that they are not physically watching the surroundings it can only be something like a result of the Obama purge of the experienced and intelligent officer corps. It always happens under Democrat presidents. Leftists of all degrees always< distrust the military because the nature of the military establishment is that it is conservative of the society and must be dangerous to radical rulers. It was true even in the USSR which had two military systems whose raisons d'êtres were to watch and control the tendencies of the regular military. In the end the Communists were right and the Army betrayed them. Leftist regimes always continually purge the military of officers who are deemed to be a threat, proximal or remote, to the rulers.
Bush's success in Iraq that followed on the "Surge" was not possible until new talent had bubbled up through the ranks during combat to counteract the extensive Clinton purge and the Surge was probably not necessary but did make the process of wining faster.

[CedarDave]

They removed two senior officers and the most senior enlisted for incompetence. So they already blamed it on incompetence. Next time read.

Not true. The article says "the top three leaders aboard the USS Fitzgerald were removed from duty" and nothing about anyone from the McCain being removed from duty, though that will no doubt come soon.

[Oztrich Boy]

Sailors too busy tweeting to pay attention.