It appears like a bundle of clueless kinds playing with an expensive toy without having read the instruction manual.
BTW; I noticed that they are equipped with CPP but the pitch was on kept at 100.1% and slowing down was done by reducing RPM, at least initially.
Wouldn’t reducing pitch be a better way of doing it??
The view from Singapore’s CNA:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/us-navy-collisions-singapore-japan-basic-navigational-errors-9366422
PS> I like this statement;
Yes they obviously have plenty of mistakes to learn from, not to mention near misses not reported on.
Nobody would argue with that statement though.