Re: Communication from bridge to CIC or vice versa.

In message <e83do6$m6d$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, William Black <william.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
"Jerry" <prather.js@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You're living in the stone age, Jack. Destroyer COs have been
fighting their ships from CIC since the Seventies. Rarely, if ever,
is anything visual going to happen in modern warfare with the possible
exception of countering small boat attacks. If rudder orders are
necessary, the skipper will call the bridge from CIC.

I've read accounts of destroyer (well whatever the Royal Navy calls
destroyers this week) captains fighting their ships from the exposed bridge
in Falkland Sound because that's the place where they could see everything.

As that's the last time anyone fought a major action at sea...

Last week, for an exercise in inshore waters (escorting an HVU up the Minches, under various attacks on the way) the captain of HMS Argyll was fighting his ship from the bridge with the PWO in the Ops Room.

Quite likely situation-dependent: that's a case where visual lookout and station-keeping was as important as the console displays. Comparing that to the more open-ocean scenarios run in the trainers at Cook Building, there the captain's in Ops throughout (admittedly, in part because there's no bridge to go to there :) )



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