The chances of this working out well were vanishingly small. A carrier is an immensely complicated thing. If this had not gone wrong (if this is what actually went wrong) it would have been something else.
Yeah, but this delay was eminently preventable by the simplest of steps. Heck, it took me all of 15 seconds to find “stone wool” using google. The Indians’ objections were to asbestos specifically, not to boiler insulation mats in general. Using brick was just pigheadedness on the part of the Russians.
“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!”
I just educated myself on “Indigo Montoya”. What a fantastic story!!!!!
having served on board the Kennedy and one other carrier, I couldn’t agree more.