Shipbuilder Discovers Vessels It Provided to the U.S. Navy May Have Been Intentionally Sabotaged During Production
Is someone trying to sabotage the Navy?
Evidence suggests so as a memo released Tuesday by Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition Nickolas Guertin to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchett says welds on in-service and in-construction Navy submarines and aircraft carriers were intentionally faulty.
USNI News reported Thursday that Newport News Shipbuilding — a Virginia based company and division of Huntington Ingalls Industries — told the Department of Justice that welds could have been made wrong intentionally.
Newport News Shipbuilding provided a statement to USNI saying they discovered welds that “did not meet our high-quality standards.”
The company,
