Posted on 11/10/2014 10:47:30 AM PST by The Looking Spoon
Salt water corrosion damage to naval vessels and aircraft is no minor expense. Aircraft grade aluminum is not salt corrosion resistant.
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>> Salt water corrosion damage to naval vessels and aircraft is no minor expense.
No, and I never said it was. But it’s not a “nightmare” — it’s a solved problem.
We have materials and processes to deal with it. And we have had them for a relatively long time.
If it was a solved problem, the new LCS class wouldn't suffer from a design defect:
LOL, very true, my apologies to dear leader.
Yes, it IS a solved problem: naval engineers know what to do and how to do it.
The fact that design mistakes are sometimes made — i.e. what we know isn’t properly applied — doesn’t negate that.
Over the two-hundred-forty year course of our naval history, we’ve had hundreds and hundreds of ships with solid thirty, forty, fifty year lifetimes. Do you deny that?
ONE class of ship with a design flaw is the exception that proves the rule.
And that flaw will be fixed. Soon. Bet on it.
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