On Costliest U.S. Warship Ever, Navy Can’t Get Munitions on Deck

Re:On Costliest U.S. Warship Ever, Navy Can’t Get Munitions ... by Nomentatus on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @10:00PM (#20571112)

Reminds me that the first U.S. ship to ship night naval battles with the Japanese in WWII were tragic (for the U.S.) 'cause the American super-fancy new-tech Mark 14 torpedoes hadn't been properly tested; that would have been "too expensive." So they were just made and deployed - and since defective, didn't trigger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo

So "this engineering mistake" indeed has to be made ad nauseum, it would seem. As Einstein said, only space and human stupidity are infinite.

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Re:On Costliest U.S. Warship Ever, Navy Can’t Get Munitions ... by fock on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @05:46AM (#20572887)

back then the US had still a solid industrial base outside of a oligopolic, capitalistic industrial-military-complex which is only interested in making money by milking the government (as opposed to making money in the long-term by supporting a solid, diverse array of industrial ventures)

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