BREAKING: Five sailors injured, 10 missing after U.S. Navy destroyer collides with a merchant ship

[BadgerMom]

26. I'm not in the Navy.

I don't believe my comments on this distant website need to conform to any idea of discipline. I AM a US voter and tax payer with a working brain and something seems amiss.

There have been 4 US ships involved in collisions in just over 12 months. The USS Louisiana, a sub, hit another Naval vessel off Washington state on 8/18/16. (http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=96326) The USS Lake Champlain, a guided missile cruiser, hit a South Korean fishing boat on 5/9/17. (https://news.usni.org/2017/05/09/cruiser) These were followed by the collisions of the USS Fitzgerald and the USS McCain, the same class of ship out of the same port. Both ran into enormous ships, a cargo freighter and a tanker, in heavily trafficked waterways. I'm 64. I've been a news reader since my late teens. I feel secure stating this is unusual. I don't think the cluster of similar accidents is coincidence.

Additionally, this article caught my eye.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2143499-ships-fooled-in-gps-spoofing-attack-suggest-russian-cyberweapon/amp/
The writer in New Scientist discusses "spoofing GPS." Merchant vessels in the Black Sea were made to appear to be 32 km inland. The article was picked up by the Daily Mail (ugh--I know) and their expert fretted over the potential for abuse of the technology, a technology developed in Russia.

I could not be more aware of how tinfoil-hat-looney-conspiracy-theorist this sounds. But I do think it's not beyond the realm of possibility today that this is cyber warfare. Will the CIC do anything? Will our generals and admirals stand for his inaction if he does nothing?