re: #21 whitebeach

Hard to say. Funny stuff happens. JFK managed to get his PT boat run over and sunk by exactly the kind of destroyer he was supposed to be hunting and killing, and the right kind of pricey PR made him a hero.

There’s a rather distinct difference between running silent and getting run over by an enemy destroyer in war-time and having a dry-goods carrier come down on your head in peace-time. An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer has sensors and navigational aids that should have clued her in that she was about to get t-boned. Short of a total systems failure that rendered her blind, deaf, and dumb as a post, there’s no excuse for missing 40,000 tons of unstoppable force bearing down on you.