None of this makes any sense. Modern warship sailors and officers are trained in, and expected to know at a professional level, seamanship, including internati

None of this makes any sense. Modern warship sailors and officers are trained in, and expected to know at a professional level, seamanship, including international rules of right of way [1]. And they've been operating in crowded ports for decades if not centuries, that's nothing new. All that happened in this case was the warship's watch changed at night and the new watch mistook the oncoming supertanker's lights for shore terminal lights, mistook the radio warnings, and didn't sound the alarm soon enough. Also the most effective weapon in modern skirmishes remains, er, weapons. A big heavy ship can still be quickly disabled and/or sunk with a single modern cannon, torpedo, or anti-ship missile. [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Regulations_for_Preventing_Collisions_at_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Regulations_for_...).