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Originally Posted by frankwjr
having served for 5 years in the USN I am afraid they will find them down in either the berthing compartments or engine space based on where the strike happened...and incompetency will and has been dealt with harshly(entire officer and upper enlisted were FIRED from the last ship!)
I am concerned if this was in fact an intentional ramming...
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Even if it was intentional, the US ship should have been able to avoid it with relative ease. Tankers are not exactly quick or nimble.
So for it to be intentional, you still have the issue of how it spotted the destroyer without the destroyer spotting it.
It makes more sense that somehow, they failed to detect each other until it was too late.