Yes, there are plenty of things we don’t know and COLREG is quite complicated but I’m pretty sure COLREG doesn’t simply give right of way to bots with guns. So them being on a collision course with a war ship doesn’t really matter here, right?
If guns or not does not matter in international waters. So if the war ship was moving, and the sail boat was sailing, the war ship must give way to the small sail boat, this is absolutely correct.
But then again, those are international waters. And we all constantly read news about provoking. Russia, China, Japan, US and plenty more where not even media coverage is happening.
They just don’t care. The same way the US does not care about shooting at “drug traffickers” in international waters. And all other countries are watching.
Yes, there are plenty of things we don’t know and COLREG is quite complicated but I’m pretty sure COLREG doesn’t simply give right of way to bots with guns. So them being on a collision course with a war ship doesn’t really matter here, right?
If guns or not does not matter in international waters. So if the war ship was moving, and the sail boat was sailing, the war ship must give way to the small sail boat, this is absolutely correct.
But then again, those are international waters. And we all constantly read news about provoking. Russia, China, Japan, US and plenty more where not even media coverage is happening.
They just don’t care. The same way the US does not care about shooting at “drug traffickers” in international waters. And all other countries are watching.