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Bloomberg: Delaying Shock Tests on Costliest Ship Opposed in Pentagon
The Navy should conduct combat shock tests on its new aircraft carrier that could disclose serious vulnerabilities in the costliest U.S. warship before it’s deployed in 2019, three top Pentagon officials said.
The officials, including Stephen Welby, the Defense Department’s head of systems engineering, wrote on May 27 that a Navy plan to delay the tests at sea until as late as 2025, when they’d be performed on the second of three planned carriers, “is not acceptable because the risks are not acceptable.”
In a shock trial, underwater charges are set off to assess how well a ship can withstand them. A crew is on board, and the test isn’t intended to damage equipment. The results are used to judge vulnerabilities and design changes that may be needed.
WNU Editor: Best to test your equipment on how it would perform in a simulated wartime situation rather than in a real war situation.
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Reminds me of the Six Sigma
mentality of one meatball company
I knew. I was told, "We'll build
such quality into the product
that we don't need to test it."
That idea failed spectacularly.
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