More Do Overs: Virginia Class Submarines Now Have Peeling Hull Coating

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

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(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: You fucking people are like children. Ya build it and send it out in the world. When something fails, you try to pass the failure to someone else.

Come on, for $5 billion dollars one would think you could at least paint the fucking submarine so the paint stays on.




Navy seeks cause of peeling hull coating
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Sep 20, 2010 9:18:36 EDT

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The Navy is trying to determine why portions of specialized hull coating have peeled off several Virginia class submarines.

[madrchsod]

1. i thought only the big three`s auto`s paint peeled off...

[Occulus]

2. Where are they operating?

Can Corexit cause paint to peel?

[taterguy]

3. It's not paint. It's a special coating.

Ya know, because the terrorists can detect paint on subs.

The better question is why we're spending $5 billion on boats designed to fight the Cold War.

[unhappycamper]

4. Pssst

We have been buying two new submarines each and every year.

[taterguy]

5. We'll need them when the terrorists can launch ICBMs from subs