High-tech warship collides with fishing boatOops! Killed a few more
civilians.
![]() Military experts sounded alarm Wednesday over the Japanese military’s ability to defend the country after one of its most advanced naval destroyers crashed into a fishing boat, leaving two missing… The 165-metre-long Atago destroyer, returning from a visit to Hawaii, crashed into the tuna-fishing boat off the Pacific coast south of Tokyo. “I may not come off as an expert, but I wonder whether the fishing boat was not detected by the radar,” said Yoshimi Watanabe, Japan’s state minister in charge of administrative and regulatory reforms. “What if it had been a terrorist boat on a suicide bombing?” he said. Watanabe probably violated Japan’s Homeland Security laws by even asking that question. Posted: Thu - February 21, 2008 at 09:17 AM |