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Even if it was in the middle of a hurricane with twenty foot swells on a moonless night you'd still expect a destroyer to be able to spot 29,000 tons of metal c
by astrodust 9y ago
Even if it was in the middle of a hurricane with twenty foot swells on a moonless night you'd still expect a destroyer to be able to spot 29,000 tons of metal coming at it.
- dogma1138 9y agoDark colored ship with dark colored containers on a pitch black night. Nope can't really spot it. Get out of the city to realize just how dark it can be.
- astrodust 9y agoI know how dark it can be outside of the city. I also don't carry around a radar system worth tens of millions of dollars that's operated by a crew that's supposed to be paying attention to where their $1.7B vessel is going. Surely a ship of that sort has a pretty robust night vision system, if not multiple methods of detecting things including thermal or lidar.
- twic 9y agoI've sailed a yacht across a shipping lane in the middle of the night. You really can spot them.
- CalChris 9y agoYep, you start seeing them over the horizon. If both bridge heights are 100 feet, they're visible at 25 miles.