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1/ The USS Fitzgerald collided with a cargo ship off the coast of Japan in 2017. These images show how ships disappeared and reappeared on the Fitzgerald’s navigation screen.
2/ One of the navigation systems on the USS Fitzgerald was 17 years old and running on Windows 2000. It was one of dozens of problems that led to the collision. propub.li/2TuGLzi
In part 2 of this story, we’ll examine how the Navy ignored years of warnings from within its own ranks before this catastrophe.
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