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To: ColdOne

An oil tanker has as much chance of ramming a destroyer that is aware of it as a destroyer would if it were trying to ram a Swift Boat. Nada. Zip. Zero. Nichts.

When I was on a destroyer during the Vietnam War we had lookouts on all quarters 24/7 no matter if we were on coastal patrol or out in the big blue Pacific. There is no excuse for not seeing a fricking oil tanker. Even if they did get hacked.


17 posted on 08/22/2017 11:04:13 AM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL - F*** A Bunch Of Liberals)
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To: Seruzawa
There is no excuse for not seeing a fricking oil tanker. Even if they did get hacked.

Some kind of sabotage to the steering mechanism would make seeing it irrelevant. But it would take a level of skill that only a few sailors could have, those being specialists in engineering. And the timing would have to be perfect.

40 posted on 08/23/2017 6:42:01 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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