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US Navy's new $166B submarine fleet is hobbled by faulty parts wearing out DECADES earlier than expected
2021-06-22
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  Running out of Baking Soda are they?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-06-22 19:49  

#8  ^--- By Design.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-06-22 18:52  

#7  The more they try to "reform" the more bureaucratically sceloteric it gets.
Posted by: magpie   2021-06-22 12:33  

#6  /\ The 1960's until today probably heralds the 'hay day', but the dynamic pre-dates the 1960's a bit:

Most of the equines sent to South Africa came from the United States. From October 1899 to June 1902, 109,878 horses and 81,524 mules were shipped from New Orleans in 65 different British steamships making 166 voyages at an average cost of US$597,978 per month for each of the 32 months of the war. It was one of the largest global transports of animals in history.

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Posted by: Besoeker   2021-06-22 10:24  

#5  The entire DoD procurement operation has been a scandal since at least the 60s.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-06-22 10:18  

#4  


Did a ITSEC consulting gig at the Rotten-Grotten GD Electric Boat yard back in the later 90's. Everything I saw and heard while there, proved to me they had total traceability of all parts from creation to installation and its lifecycle afterwards.

Note: These boats are already approaching 20+ year lifecycle. Couple that with their missions, number of dives and combat training simulations. Yes Parts will fail given the heavy and strenuously use.

But as long nothing fails in the "Forest" and there is still a Bubble, it can be fixed.


Posted by: NN2N1   2021-06-22 08:56  

#3  Procopius, suggested rewrite: Navy has been a scandal...
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485   2021-06-22 08:43  

#2  Navy procurement has been a scandal since the Greatest Generation retired (who remembered why you did it right and didn't bleed on the next technology).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-06-22 07:38  

#1  Advice:

Order at least a gross of these,
lest the submarine fleet goes,
'Glub, glub'.

Posted by: Punky Splashing3445   2021-06-22 02:53  

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