No one is very good at using Morse code these days
"no one is very good at using Morse code these days, so the US Navy has turned to a technological fix."
That's because some time back, the US military dropped the requirement for operators to be trained in Morse code. What happens when someone blows holes in your tablet and no one know how to sends a signal the old fashioned way.
If you can read this then a US Navy fondleslab just put you out of a job young people today, eh?