And given it’s the Strait of Malacca, it might have well been a question for the freighter crew to risk running over a destroyer (which should be capable of avoiding just that) or risk running into another giant... it’s not like they can nimbly dance around another ship. Once they change course, they’re committed for…

It’s a whole lot harder to stop or change the course of a tanker or freighter than a destroyer, so the logic is the same.

We can work on being more professional but please drop all hope of us not being assholes. You’re in Rome 150AD bud.

Getting out of the way of a container ship seems like a good place to start that mitigating risk.

The wreck of the William Fitzgerald? You would almost have to try to do this

I have been 100% put in my place. I don’t know shit about boats. Sorry everyone. Ignore me.

Okay that makes sense, but you don’t enter an intersection on a green light when you see a garbage truck coming on collision course... that is clearly going to run it’s red light

There’s nothing in the IMO’s collision regulations that could be interpreted as military vessels  being exempt from having to practice proper seamanship. Furthermore, merchant vessels have schedules to keep, and late penalties to incur... not to mention maneuvering a fully laden container ship takes bit more time than…

The big issue is that the naval vessel is 10x more maneuverable than the merchant vessel. You can tell a vessel to stop all you want, you can’t change physics.

More binoculars than NASCAR stands:

I have obtained exclusive video from the lead up to the collision:

Yeah that is the attitude exactly that needs to change, maybe if we dropped that then the rest of the world wouldn’t think we’re all a bunch of assholes.

Left hand down a bit?

There could have been a spider on the wheel. Fuck spiders.

That’s a good point, but to my—admittedly limited—understanding, that wasn’t a driving factor for the three countries in question. Indeed, I’d think that both Ukraine and Kazakhstan would have been able to maintain the weapons themselves, and probably the delivery systems, too.

Read the comment.

You’re right, but I’m not sure what the functional difference is - wether you developed them yourself or not, the fact that you have them is what matters.

I’ll try, but I suck at this, and I had to look that acronym up. F-ing acronyms.

Mine’s nothing special. It’s a 1982 GTV6. This is her.