[em2vn]

Wait until you get to the part about the welds.

[raybbr]

Let's all sing together...

"Look for the Union label..."

[edcoil]

Does not say were made - is this EB’s shipyard?

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

Could they perhaps be of Chinese origin? Maybe they were manufactured to “hold” during peacetime maneuvers but fail (by manufacturing design) during wartime action. Things that make you go hmmmmm.

[Dick Bachert]

Actually, the new subs are the LEAST of the navy's problems.

Armed with a single MA-2 .50 caliber Browning, this much feared naval vessel carries up to 30 rounds of armor piercing ammunition. It is the first in an entirely new naval architecture class -- technically, “clitoral” (not to be confused with “littoral”) -- being pushed on the Pentagon by the defense minded wussies in the Obama Administration as a cost-saving measure. If you look closely, you can see the heavy-duty seat restraint which prevents the pilot/gunner – Kamakazi Kowalski – from leaping from the vessel prior to engaging the enemy. The 12 V trolling motor – which lacks a reverse function -- propels this sophisticated craft forward at a top speed of 4 knots. Reverse travel – at approximately 35 knots -- is achieved by firing the Browning.

The no-bid contract to build 200 of these fearsome warships was recently awarded to Obama-Soros-Emanuel Shipbuilding and Stormdoor Manufacturing (formerly General Dynamics) and will be administered by trusted Obama associate and Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel who commented that, at $12 million each, they are a bargain. They will be constructed exclusively at the company’s facility in Kenya with major subcomponent production (rivets and miscellaneous fasteners) at the company’s Harlem and Skokie plants. Delivery is expected to begin in 2024 (or as soon as the subcontractor's funds are safely in the contractor's Swiss account).

[US Navy Vet]

You can trace alot of this stuff back the Bush (41) when HE and the DoD (Cheney) allowed MASSIVE Defense Industry consolidations it allowed for MASSIVE Defense Corp to exist(Northop-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin and the like).

[mkjessup]

From the article:

"This is all about quality control, or, rather, that lack of same. It all began when a weld inspector at the Newport News shipyard was found to be falsifying the inspection of welding jobs on four Virginia class submarines and a Nimitz class carrier. Some 10,000 welds had to be re-inspected, as these are how many the now dismissed inspector handled in four years on the job. Each Virginia class sub has about 300,000 welds that have to be inspected. Normally, only a few will fail inspection and have to be redone."

Now as I see it, that little bastard of an 'inspector' should have been convicted of sabotage, lined up against a wall, and drilled for ventilation.

[papasmurf]

“It all began when a weld inspector at the Newport News shipyard was discovered involved in bribery to create false inspection reports...”

[SC Swamp Fox]

It all began when a weld inspector at the Newport News shipyard was found to be falsifying the inspection of welding jobs on four Virginia class submarines and a Nimitz class carrier. Some 10,000 welds had to be re-inspected,....

Treason.

[Cicero]

A friend of ours is the head of Edgewater Boats, which he bought many years ago and has successfully built up.

He has a military contract of some kind for coastal patrol boats, and he delivers.

I can’t put my hands on a photo of the military model, but here’s the Edgewater website with some pics. Very nice boats:

http://www.edgewaterboats.com/

[fso301]

It all began when a weld inspector at the Newport News shipyard was found to be falsifying the inspection of welding jobs on four Virginia class submarines and a Nimitz class carrier. Some 10,000 welds had to be re-inspected

Fraud is a constant risk in quality assurance groups.

[Clintonfatigued]

Politicall correct types and supporters of free trade & outsourcing won’t like this question, but were these defective parts manufactured overseas?

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