Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

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In layman's terms: The navy discovered a 1940s manufacturing process in the 00s to save money. Apparently this required a hull change from the seawolf class to virginia class. Everyone high-fived themselves about this "novel" discovery.

The engineering of ship's hull and propulsion systems is mostly optimized with very small room for improvement, aside from ensuring quality of work from our barrel bellied, alcoholic, felony-convicted shipyard bubbas. Combat system sensors (radar, sonar, ew, etc.) and things that go boom are where we can make meaningful technological advancements.

Sorry for the jargon.

You oversimplified this - building a car vs building something to Subsafe / NR standards with HY100 that is thousands of LT in displacement.

And anytime you want to try and do some of the work that these alcoholic, felony convicted workers do, be my guest. And OBTW, you get your badge clipped if you even get charged with a felony, much less convicted.

When you actually know what you’re talking about, then start posting.

 

[Spekkio]

You oversimplified this - building a car vs building something to Subsafe / NR standards with HY100 that is thousands of LT in displacement.

And anytime you want to try and do some of the work that these alcoholic, felony convicted workers do, be my guest. And OBTW, you get your badge clipped if you even get charged with a felony, much less convicted.

When you actually know what you’re talking about, then start posting.

I didn't say building a submarine is the same as building a car. What I implied was that 60 years was far too long for the Navy to discover that building a sub in modules and assembling it at the end saves a ton of money. Especially when the technology improvements over its LA class predecessor are extremely incremental.

There's a man sitting in prison right now for being the first person to destroy a submarine since the Japanese sunk the Bullhead on Aug 6, 1945. According to you, he should've had his badge clipped. Oops.

Sorry if I struck a nerve.

Second shift bro. Mahalo! 🤙

 

[BigRed389]

I didn't say building a submarine is the same as building a car. What I implied was that 60 years was far too long for the Navy to discover that building a sub in modules and assembling it at the end saves a ton of money. Especially when the technology improvements over its LA class predecessor are extremely incremental.

There's a man sitting in prison right now for being the first person to destroy a submarine since the Japanese sunk the Bullhead on Aug 6, 1945. According to you, he should've had his badge clipped. Oops.

Sorry if I struck a nerve.

Second shift bro. Mahalo! 🤙

Shipyards are very tribal in how they operate…so I’m not surprised it took them a while to get there.

But there’s also the fact that machining extremely large irregularly shaped objects made of unforgiving materials to very precise tolerances are basically opposing requirements.

The other point related to shipyard workforce quality is…if you want better workers, pay more. Or build a glut in the labor pool of skilled laborers. The shipyards aren’t incentivized to go better/faster on their own via fixed price contracts. Which may sound totally insane and counter to how fixed price works in theory land…but that’s pretty much how that goes more often than it should.

 

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From what little I've seen and heard about him he is a bit like Ward Carroll, but with less actual experience and credibility.

Two different kinds of unserious. One is a look-at-me court jester that wants everyone to take him and his #deepintel super seriously. The other, John Konrad, is...something much worse.