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1. Faulty welds knowingly made on Navy submarines, carriers at Newport News Shipbuilding
by: Brian Reese
Posted: Sep 27, 2024 / 05:56 PM EDT
Updated: Sep 27, 2024 / 11:08 PM EDT
https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/faulty-welds-knowingly-made-on-navy-submarines-carriers-at-newport-news-shipbuilding/
2. Lawmakers demand answers over reports of faulty Navy ship welding
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
Friday, Sep 27, 2024
https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-navy/2024/09/27/lawmakers-demand-answers-over-reports-of-faulty-navy-ship-welding/
3. Lawmakers to Investigate Faulty Sub, Carrier Welding at Newport News Shipbuilding
By Sam LaGrone
September 27, 2024 5:49 PM - Updated: September 27, 2024 7:50 PM
https://news.usni.org/2024/09/27/lawmakers-announce-investigation-into-faulty-submarine-carrier-welding-at-newport-news-shipbuilding-ships-affected-in-low-single-digits-officials-say
4. Lawmakers to Investigate Faulty Sub, Carrier Welding at Newport News Shipbuilding
Sam LaGrone
September 27, 2024 5:49 PM - Updated: September 27, 2024 7:50 PM
https://news.usni.org/2024/09/27/lawmakers-announce-investigation-into-faulty-submarine-carrier-welding-at-newport-news-shipbuilding-ships-affected-in-low-single-digits-officials-say
WASHINGTON — The Navy is investigating how 26 warships, including three that are operational, received faulty welds while undergoing construction or maintenance at Newport News Shipbuilding, according to a letter from the service secretary to senators and House lawmakers.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-10-10/navy-ships-faulty-welds-virginia-shipyard-15466994.html
Source - Stars and Stripes
Didn’t Earn It (DEI) hires, sabotage, or both.
Huntington Ingalls is tha parent company?
Public corporation traded under HII symbol
But “Diversity is our Strength!”™️
Thing is every weld made is inspected and signed off by said inspector.
It seems no one here knows the actual story.
Don’t they X-ray or radiograph every weld?
Cry treason! The enemy is within the gates. I have a solution for this.
CCP
This sounds like a season 9 episode of NCIS.
If deliberate, it’s treason, but no one will be charged.
Upon finding this to be true, there should be mass firings, all the way up to the SecNavy. This should have been caught & remedied by several layers of inspection.
No way a ship should be commissioned in this situation.
“Knowingly”? Did someone confess? If they know it was deliberate, then they must know who, when, & why & their possible connections to terrorism.
My first thought is corner cutting on the part of the welder(s) involved. I am wondering what the motivation was - are the welders paid by the weld? Or perhaps they are paid by the inch? Or is there a productivity bonus of some kind? Or a minimum productivity goal to be met?
Otherwise we are talking about intentional sabotage.
In my experience on tanks and fighting vehicles ballistic welders are highly trained and certified. Each & every one, even DEI hires, knows a good weld from a bad one, ditto for the inspectors. I suspect the Navy welders are the same. One or two bad welds could be the result of having a bad day or a problem with faulty equipment...but not at the same facility on 20-something ships/subs over several months.
There *should* be a record of who did the welds and when.
Why would anyone be the least bit surprised?
Forests, airlines, ships, food processing facilities, and chemical/petrol plants have been under attack for several years...
Those repair contracts are very lucrative