Talk:General Discussion/@comment-24903916-20140906180613

I have a question and I'm hoping one of you is a bigger history freak than I am cause I don't know the answer. It seems a lot of IJN ships had issues with collision during WW2. Mogami, Inazuma, Myoukou, Hatsukaze, etc all collided if not during peacetime, during the heat of combat.

It boggles my mind how radar and radio equipped ships could run into one another. I'm especially confused by cases that occured in battle. I mean really? Any proper admiral would at least make sure all allied ships were properly organized and that they wouldn't hit each other.

Why did so many IJN ships suffer these issues? Did the U.S. navy also experience this many collisions? Was it due to lack of communications, lack of ship handling expertise?