Hacker News Reader

I'm surprised this has been on front page of HN all day. As others said, its a surface boat, you could just follow it with a plane, ship, or submarine. If someone knows where it is, everyone does. Would be more concerning if it was a submarine that was able to be tracked.

View on HN

Think resources. For most countries, the position of that particular ship isn't interesting during 99.99% of the time. If you can locate it easily du moment your interest is piqued, you can dedicate the resources needed to track it continuously elsewhere.

The aircraft career has a submarine and other ships to defend him.

So they are all at risk.

The carrier moves with that group though for the exact reason this story isnt a big deal. They are slow and very visible so they need other ships to defend them

Reply on news.ycombinator.com