It might not be irrelevant.Greenshirt wrote:Turning on when transiting restricted waterways makes sense.
This however is irrelevant to the terrible watchstanding that caused the mccain and fitzgerald incidents.
Their refusal to broadcast AIS and their purposely diminished radar signatures (as in "stealth" construction/coatings) didn't give their merchant shipping "opponents" a reliable chance to be able to say "oh-oh, there's a US Navy ship, they probably aren't paying attention and may not abide by navigation rules, so we better give them some extra room and take additional care to avoid contact."