Posted on 05/27/2017 8:51:08 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
The British Battleships, HMS King George V and HMS Rodney engaged the German Battleship Bismarck. After about two hours of battle, British gunfire had reduced Bismarck was a slowly sinking, burning wreck. The German crew set off scuttling charges and the Cruiser HMS Dorsetshire fired a salvo of torpedoes into her. At 10:39 Bismarck slid beneath the waves. 120 sailors out of the 2200 man crew were rescued.
To paraphrase Rumsfeld: You go to war with the Navy you have. The Bismarck was the most dangerous ship on the seven seas. They had to sink it.
The flaw was known before the start of hostilities. You don’t think it would have made sense to schedule the repairs of fatal flaws on capital assets beforehand?
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