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US aircraft carrier collides with merchant ship near Egypt; No injuries reported
- duxup 2y agoWere they in a crowded space? Wouldn't a military ship, especially a valuable aircraft carrier, involve some level of buffer around it that you would want to avoid being violated?
- sillywalk 2y agoIt looks like it happened near the Suez canal, so single file. Also, the ship it collided with was involved in another collision in 2016. https://www.twz.com/sea/aircraft-carrier-uss-harry-s-truman-collides-with-merchant-ship https://www.twz.com/sea/aircraft-carrier-uss-harry-s-truman-...
- hindsightbias 2y agoThe Navy, especially carriers, operate like that drunk guy in a powerboat. With their lights and AIS off. A destroyer isn’t going to help much when you’re trying to run over a bulk carrier.
- Arnt 2y agoA ship, not so bad, it could have been a Canadian lighthouse.
- g8oz 2y agoWill the White House blame DEI?
- defrost 2y agoMagic Eight Ball says: Next Press Conference. Party boy Hegseth, coming down from his recent re-renaming of Fort Bragg (but not that Bragg this time) will take a swig from this news and link it to the woke agenda sapping the fluids from the 'merican men.