What's happening after the collision? Is the PLA-N Destroyer continuing its pursuit of the PCG vessel, with the PCG vessel simply maintaining its intended course?
Yes don't under any circumstances mention how this is a rampant display of blatant amateur hour ship handling by a brown water navy desperately pretending to be a blue water one. "Look we ran into one of our own ships because we don't know the meaning of the phrase situational awareness, but we came away with hardly a scratch so buy our ship".
They are learning to become Blue Water navy, and one of that learning curve is how to coordinate in open sea. They have to learn it mostly by themselves, and learning curve by mostly your own experience from Brown Water to Green and now Blue is not easy and will cost them down the line. Question is whether they can absorb the cost throughout the learning curve. No Navy get to be Blue water without their own learning curve cost.
I am pretty sure* learning to be a blue water navy does not include a module called how to ram a boat. Rather, the most basic and essential lessons are the Rules of the Road (COLREG) which emphasis safety at sea (SOLAS).
Ramming a boat or scaring off another ship in the end need coordination discipline, especially you are doing in team. That coordination exercise that I consider part of learning curve.
That I agree, which I said in my posts they are having coordination breakdown. Still my point is with this incidence, does not mean they are not taking note on the mistake and learning. What I don't agree is that using this incidence and point out incompetence of PLAN and Chinese Coast Guard will stay.
The PLAN and the CCG will learn (especially with regard to COLREG) but only wrt to their own vessels. They will continue these reckless actions against foreign ships.
Possible but pilots are at much greater risk and even the PLAAF doesn't want to lose highly trained pilots and expensive jets. They will be risked for actual combat missions not dumba$$ intimidation. The PLAN can do that.
While that‘s true, there‘s no shortage of stupud stunts by them. Some things need to go only slightly wtong for a collision to happen.
The chinese coastguard ship really had the urge to spray the Philippine coastguard ship with its port side water cannon, and the destroyer was really focused on ramming the Philippine vessel, to the point the chinese vessels don't know each other's positions.
Well, it happened in 2001 with a US Navy P-3 Orion.