Military contractors selling crappy stuff. They do it because it is cheaper for them to hire legions of lobbyists than fix good stuff.
Avondale used to turn out OK ships. If my memory is correct, they built the last 20 of the Knox class frigates in the 1970s. The biggest construction issue that I know of was that the entire joint between the aluminum deckhouse and the steel hull had to be replaced during an overhaul for each ship.
But their LPD-17s are rife with problems. They may be the biggest pieces of floating shit since the Mitscher destroyer class.
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You can deliberately bilk the armed forces by selling them shit weapons, and get lots more work from it, but if you blow the whistle on your boss, to improve the country's security, then you're considered a traitor...
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http://www.asm-indy.org/brownlar.htm
"Military contractors selling crappy stuff."
Nothing new there; I imagine clear back during the Pelloponesian War there were characters selling low grade bronze to the warring countries...
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