"In 2014, Navy officials discovered a flaw in the IBNS. One component could not keep track of more than 150 ships at a time without malfunctioning, according to Navy investigators. The Navy’s solution? Sailors were told to delete ships before the total hit the magic number.
The nav system could also become overloaded if too much info streamed in from a ship database used worldwide to prevent maritime collisions. The Navy’s second solution was similar to the first: Drop the feed..."
...Excerpted from Pro-Publica's exposee on the USS John McCain Crash on August 21, 2017...
Please Read....I'm no "luddite" but this is our national defense we're screwing with here: When technology doesn't work it does TWO Destructive things: it puts the Destroyer fleet offline AND these ships are populated by people who can't navigate ON A REAL ship...
@Usama_Backhair That is such a good read and paints quite a poor picture of how we treat service members in the US...by their own bosses.
Then there is Trump who instead of pardoning someone like the 2 in the article....he pardons war criminals
@Usama_Backhair I think I have given up hope on contacting legislation ever doing anything. As we can see by this impeachment, no one will go against their party.
Its fucked
@slenk
On stuff like this, the noise will make them all take notice...BOTH sides...if flooding e-mail doesn't work I've used snail-mail letters and even the most stubborn and ignorant lawmaker has to do something. This particular issue is an indictment of their patriotism in a way they cannot ignore...politically...trust me when I tell you. It WILL make a diff on this issue.
@slenk
Yup 🤷♂️
Word.
This has to be fixed NOW...just like when we made the Bushies spend the dough to up-Armor the Humvees we have to start sending emails to EVERY member of the house and the prez....this mustn't stand