{"id":191218,"date":"2009-09-12T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/12\/u-s-navy-no-risk-from-bad-welds-defense-news\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T11:03:00","slug":"u-s-navy-no-risk-from-bad-welds-defense-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/12\/u-s-navy-no-risk-from-bad-welds-defense-news\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy: No Risk From Bad Welds &#8211; Defense News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the construction defects in some of the Virginia class submarines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4271439&amp;c=SEA&amp;s=TOP\">may not be as worrying as previously thought<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Both Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding and General Dynamics Electric Boat have conducted exhaustive analysis and testing that demonstrates: the low probability of improper welds occurring aboard submarines; that improper welds are unlikely to fail during the ship&#8217;s operational life; and that should a weld fail it would leak but not break, thereby alerting the crew in time to address the issue before the weld degraded further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sounds reassuring.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this is separate from the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/well-this-is-reassuring.html\">issues involving bolts for the weapons handling system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the construction defects in some of the Virginia class submarines may not be as worrying as previously thought: Both Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding and General Dynamics Electric Boat have conducted exhaustive analysis and testing that demonstrates: the low probability of improper welds occurring aboard submarines; that improper welds are unlikely to fail during &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}