U.S. Navy’s Costliest Warship Suffers New Failure at Sea

Really another costly debacle within the shipbuilding industry and all the subcontracted institutions responsible for quality manufacturing and process control of systems and the components vital to mission readiness !! When are the leaders responsible for contract ovetsite ,going to institute new government quality controls and standards too prevent this type of misguided practice. Navsea along with everyone else need to up their game so this kind of bullshit continuesto decay a fleet which at current levels will not be able too go forward in 40 different directions, to prevent sea lanes from blockage by foreign adversaries ? I distinctly recall when we were in a dry dock overhaul, we as ship's company carried our ship's plans/prints and we verified that the shipyard workers were in fact performing per all standard's required. The parts wrre in fact tested/inspected per all quality standards prior to installation. I guess something's changed since I retired in 93 after 25 years, definitely in the scope of leadership and mentorship of subordinates to carry out assigned tasks dsy in and day out. Every time I read the Navy times there's been another at sea collision system failure/breakdown either through poorly manufactured components or crew negligence? What in the sam Hell is going on out there in the United States Navy, in which I so proudly served in ?

New technologies I understand there will be problems, but main bearings?

About time the Navy takes the heat off the Air Force and F-35! When will people realize you don't push technology and not have setbacks and cost increases? Every time I see people complaining about these massive failures with new weapon systems I think back to a fiasco on a much lesser scale involving an automobile. Back in late 1973 we bought a 1974 Buick before I was going to deploy on an Arc Light tour on the theory that a new car would be less hassle for my wife and young son while alone on base. Well 1974 Buick's had this remarkable safety feature that wouldn't let you start your car if drivers seatbelt wasn't latched. You guessed it, system didn't work very well and I spent at least one day a week at the dealer trying to figure out why car wouldn't start with seatbelt latched from one day to the next. Fortunately (?????) we lived in Michigan and they actually had people drive up from the Buick factory to help resolve the problem. Supposedly federal law mandated the interlock, so it couldn't be disconnected. About three weeks before I deployed the problem seemed to be resolved but about a month into the tour got a letter (no instant communications back then) from my wife saying the car wouldn't start again and she was back to frequent trips to the dealer. Guess GM finally acknowledged problems with the system and got permission to disconnect it and I don't recall it being offered after the 1974 model year. But moral of story, technology doesn't always work the way engineers planned and there will be issues, be it cars, aircraft or aircraft carriers.