Diversity Hires in US Military Cannot Repair or Make New ICBMs Because They Don’t Understand the Technology

Citizen Watch Report ^ | Chris Black

[davikkm]

All founding-stock Americans (or Germans by the way) who built bleeding edge US tech back in the day died of old age and the new generation of engineers don’t understand their work and can’t replicate it.

This is really bad.

[Sirius Lee]

Maybe they should hire chinese. They can at least replicate it.

[gundog]

Or A-rabs. Give ‘em some water pipes and propellant, and watch ‘em go.

[Reverend Wright]

If things are not in current production, the knowledge is lost very quickly.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39537/the-air-force-needs-to-reverse-engineer-parts-of-its-own-stealth-bomber

[Reverend Wright]

When the turret on the Iowa blew up, the Navy originally wanted to repair it.

But they found that no-one had welded steel that thick since 1945 and by the mid-1980’s the knowledge was lost.

They knew vaguely that the procedure was to weld part way and then peen the weld to stress relieve it. But the exact procedure documentation could not be found, and the Iowa was scrapped.

[Apparatchik]

All founding-stock Americans…

Who wrote this garbage? Clearly not a native English speaker. AI would even do a better job.

And the US military does not “repair or build new ICBMs”.

Please keep this foreign propaganda trash off FR. Or better, yet, folks here should look at this tripe so they can recognize it in the future.

[SauronOfMordor]

>>But they found that no-one had welded steel that thick since 1945 and by the mid-1980’s the knowledge was lost.<<

Where I worked, the term was “tribal knowledge” — information that was passed from older members of the team to new members, but never documented. It was regarded as a bad thing, to be remedied when realized.

I think we had similar issues with the details of building the Saturn V rocket.

[mazz44]

Open your eyes. The elephant is staring directly at you.

[Bigg Red]

bleeding edge???

Writer is an idiot.

[SauronOfMordor]

And the US military does not “repair or build new ICBMs”.

Really? You don't think maintenance is done on ICBMs?

I think there's probably an issue with some of our older weapons system that have been around for decades, where some not-often-replaced parts may be hard to restart production for.

[Jonty30]

How do you say defeat the US by rotting it from the inside. It’s obvious that DEI is a work of China.

[Apparatchik]

Trying to figure out what country you come from, based on your odd use of English (inappropriate capitalization, use of clearly incorrect idioms like “short-sided” vice “short-sighted”) Guessing China or Russia, since so many of you are on here to sow discord. Also can’t yet figure why you have not yet been zotted with all the profanity you post. Wanna save me some time?

[Apparatchik]

The phony article says “repair or build” Try working with that.

[Calvin Cooledge]

This is the future. Pump Six

[Right_Wing_Madman]

It’s obvious that DEI is a work of China.

You have cause and effect backwards. China is simply taking advantage of America's deterioration.

And speaking of China, the Ming Dynasty was already rotting inside before the Manchus invaded and overthrew them.

[70times7]

Who wrote this garbage?

It may be garbage, but it is "bleeding edge" garbage, and that means something!

[Jonty30]

Yes. The rot started under the Soviet Union.

[sauropod]

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[70times7]

would incorrect idioms include “vice” rather than versus or vs? ;-)

[70times7]

This means the tubes of new Boomers are EMPTY!!!

This is hugh and series!

And probably involves a huge manatee ...