Thread: News US Navy destroyer takes on water after collision
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Old 06-17-2017, 10:05 PM  
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Originally Posted by Vendzilla View Post
That cruiser had some of the best radar ever developed, someone was sleeping on watch. We scraped bottom once, but always worried about rubbing up against a whale or surfacing under a ship sitting dead in the water.
That has happened
JAPANESE SHIP SINKS IN COLLISION WITH U.S. ATOM SUB - NYTimes.com
I am rather surprised that this was able to happen. With the radar and tracking systems this ship must have, how could it not have seen it long before it hit.
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