Hi, gents! Kim Kipling here. Great to see you all, enjoying the new channel. As you know, I was a USN Surface Warfare Officer. I've watched the video like everyone else in America. In my judgement, there is virtually ZERO chance that this was a planned, targeted attack. Merchant ships get little maintenance; the least their owners think they can get away with giving them. MV DALI had been having electrical problems pierside while in the port; something to do with refrigerated containers drawing too much power and tripping breakers. The video shows her losing total electrical power a couple of times just before the incident, while in the channel. She lost power, and therefore rudder control. Her Pilot had the presence of mind to send a radio warning, allowing some traffic control, keeping some vehicles from going on to the bridge and saving some lives. Heavy smoke visible in the video tells me she reversed engines and applied maximum throttle. She dropped her port anchor, appropriately in this situation, trying to stop. She was making about 8 knots, and this was too little too late. She impacted the support piers of the bridge and the rest is history. Despite conspiracy theories to the contrary, Occam's Razor says the most likely explanation is the simplest explanation. In my judgement, this was a maritime accident, NOT a terrorist attack. All that said, don't think for a minute that terrorists all over the globe aren't going to school on what happened and thinking about how they could replicate this as an attack method. Scary reality is, they could.

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Solid show! I liked the second half, touching on some important topics that can get spicy at times, and then those cheeky comments at the end made me laugh

Andy is a bit off in his comments about other naval support in Red Sea. The French navy was escorting vessels with any sort of french affiliation (one french national/flagged in a former french colony/ the ship owned/leased through some proxy by a french company or for that matter another european country that asked nicely while the US Navy was gettint their shit together and trying to stand up the whole Prosperity Gurardian framework instead of getting after it and building the plane in flight. Also the Indian Navy has literally parachuted commandos in and taken control of a pirate vessel the MV Ruen (the Somalis that have been serving essentially as Houthi privateers). The Indian navy also served as first responders and assisted in the damage control of the True Confidence saving remaining 20 some crew (with the 3 fatalities from the crew the first fatalities of this). Theres more to the maritime mission than throwing missiles that cost $7 figures at drones and missiles that cost $6 or less figures.

Thanks for the sanity, gentlemen!

They have identified a vehicle with two bodies. They cannot continue the search because the currents are making the debris unstable. It's now a salvage operation.

The ship was WAY off course long before it hit the bridge, bcuz it was nowhere near the middle of the channel where it should have been. Unless the ship lost power and propulsion LONG before it allided and the current took it directly at the bridge support, it just seemed very odd that it wasn’t in the middle of the channel to clear the underside of the bridge. I did not see a pilot boat nearby either, which should be heading out into the channel to pick up the harbor pilot from the container ship.

The person piloting the ship was the local pilot. Ship crews do not normally pilot their ship in and out of ports. Local specialized pilots familiar with the port are at the helm.

As always, thanks again for speaking the truth.

People don't even have to neccessarily believe in the sensationalized stories to push them forward, as (whether it's for the dopamine hit of getting your name attached to a story or actual ad revenue) we live in a click-based economy.

Having plenty of insight on the function of most current infrastructure, it would be no surprise to me if this where a maintenance issue and nothing else. I hav plenty of experience with maintenance, and people management and I can tell you myself that neglect is a common occurrence, far more common than terrorism and even more common than the fantasy of someone hacking a ship in order to hit a bridge and close a port. Accidents are more likely than anything else, especially given the ship in question. This particular ship has allegedly slammed itself into a port once already.

Could it be cyber related, like possibly the Evergreen at the Panama canal?

The Dutch have 4 state of the art air defence and control frigates (6050 tons so actually more of a destroyer) of the Seven Provinces class, as we speak the HNLMS F-803 Tromp (NOOOO NOT TRUMP!!!) arrived in the Red Sea to participate in Operation Aspides. Anyway they're being updated even better radars, new OtoMelara 127/64 guns extra goalkeepers, extra VLS with Tomahawks etc, etc. And the new follow-on class is in development to stay on that edge and maintain top of the line Air Defence capability. Also France(2),Germany(3), Denmark(3) and Italy(2) have similar very capable Air Defence Destroyers very similar to the Royal Navy's Type 45 Daring class(6).

Then I thought about the image of taking down Francis Scott Key bridge in terms of the taking down of the national anthem

From Baltimore, this hit me like 911

Hunt for the kill switch is an interesting article.

Have they said anything about how many vehicles went into the water

it happened at 130am, and the investigation was complete by 04:00am. If you research all the coincidences its' DEFINITELY intentional. Ukrainian dude, and they changed owners 2 days before the crash...Too many coincidences

So on my social media some one is bragging they just took there asvab and got a 8. The army recruiter said with this score you can do anything in the army!! Lol

well thank god these military men are telling us it wasnt an attack....phew I was worried

I believe it’s foul play. I’m a Maryland resident.

It wasn't foul play. That dude lives in los Angeles and at the moment is too poor to go to Baltimore.

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The same thing happened in Tampa in the early 80’s. Stop the nonsense about terrorism. Ships/ boats hit bridges all the time because of negligence

Big making content just to make content feel here. You all have made a couple good ones i wouldnt want you to wear it out

Did somebody say Ho Chi Minh trail

Where is international community in the Red Sea? USA either doesn’t want them there or can’t get them to assist. USA current administration is arrogant and incompetent. Also, perhaps other nations being there would not be of help, and not capable.

It was no accident. Ships have set courses like airplanes so "accidents" like that don't happen. For a cargo ship that big to make it far enough inland it had to be on purpose. It was either hacked and signal jammed or it was the plan for it to crash with all the class 9 hazardous materials and the containers be "breached". Accidents like that don't just happen. Not without the help from someone. Plus it hit the main pillar that supported the bridge and made it stand so the bridge had no chance.. America the land of a crooked government. America is falling.

Yes nothing to see here 😂

Accident or foul play? This whole video is shameful

There's no such thing as Palestinians, because Palestine isn't a real place. Gazan, that's it.

Watching from London... Trump 2024 🫡...

Horrible accident that y'all turn into click bait!

No, it wasn’t. Please change your headline.

first 1 min - a complete lies😂🤦🏻‍♂️ the cia dude can’t even coherently lie lol. combined intellectual capacity of the crew averages around room temperature (minus sound/production dude)

what the heck does this have to do with the situation in israel? is this just a propaganda nonsense session?