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Originally Posted by Frame57
I cannot deny the truth of that SQ. But our ancient TB-16 on Archerfish worked all the time. So I am not buying that for this particular TA. With that much of a poor performance, there has to be an OEM design flaw somewhere.
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I don't doubt it. I dunno... my sense of things is that there's two things going on right now:
1) The US Navy is not nearly as skilled as it used to be. It has to do with a lot of things coming to a head. Everything from bad personel policy to budget issues.
2) There's a lot of lesser known problems with various other programs that result from issues similar to those in the LCS program. The LCS program was just the biggest goof up. The policies that led to the goof up were not isolated to the LCS program.
3) American scientists and engineers are not as good as they used to be. The public education system is basically a tragedy. The really sad thing is that we're actually dealing with a generational problem. Things have been so bad for so long that parents don't know what it really means to be educated anymore. So... when the parents are incompetant in science and math, any marginal improvement over them seems great to them, even as kids are falling behind in the big picture. As one who went to private school, sometimes I'm SHOCKED to find out what most public school children consider to be advanced material. Frankly, I don't think American universities should admit American children anymore. They're not capable of the work. Every child should graduate from highschool knowing calculus and linear algebra. That should just be a given. It's impossible right now, though. It's a total pipedream.
So... bottom line in about twenty years the US military is going to look like a European military. They ended up in the hole they were in because of socialism. We're going to end up in the hole we're in because of... Republicanism. It's actually pretty funny when I think about it.