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Different emergency systems that allow them to go out and notify other ships in the area. the problem is that such a busy location. what's interesting about this, it was actually equipped with the defense missile. the systems on the ship are very sophisticated. it's used to detect someone north korea's missiles and shoot down intermediate range ballistic missiles. the fact that this was hit and had a collision east of singapore, we really hope everyone is okay and the rescue mission is underway with different coalition partners. >> you mention this is the second time it's happened under the se...
>> i am no navy man, but i think my reaction is probably like millions of others, does this keep happening. this is the fourth time this year within the seventh fleet. for mos most of us, it's difficult to understand how the ships, in a wide open ocean with today's radar and sensor technology, how could they collide like this. it's kind of like two cars hitting each other in the middle not for a number of my navy colleagues, i've been deployed over there, that street is a pretty hairy transit. at night in particular, or in bad weather, the radars do not
Necessarily work as well as they should. visibility is low. it's one of the busiest shipping channels in the world. it's incredibly tight and then you have a lot of local shipping barges that sometimes aren't even lit at night and don't abide by the standard rules of the sea. think more information will come out. this is incredibly dangerous and tight area. operationally, sure, i was just going to say that the seventh fleet is responsible for when we hear the president moving ships off the coast of north korea, like what happened several months ago, that could potentially, if we need a militar...