Hmm, let's see.
Challenger Disaster
American Airlines fined $24M for repeated violations of safety rules
Entire F-35 fleet grounded due to mechanical problems
Yep, them Russians got nothin' on us, do they now?
Maybe your question would be clearer if you can explain how high pressure physics and petroleum engineering are related. Last I checked they weren't.
And since the Russians are so horrible at big engineering projects perhaps you can explain why we let them build major weapons systems for us.
Probably. Just as it was one or our advanced torpedoes that probably sank the USS Scorpion and one of the British advanced torpedoes that probably sank the HMS Sidon.
Yep, them Rooskies could never touch our technology.
LOL.
Cheers,
Mazo.
Originally Posted by Mazomaniac
I am not claiming that anything you have written is incorrect. Nor, am I claiming you cannot find more (BTW, I know I can also). I'm just offering additional information to keep things in perspective.
India rejects Russian aerial tankers over poor maintenance
NEW DELHI, May 26 [2009] (RIA Novosti) - India has dropped Russia from a $1-bln tender to supply six aerial tankers for the Indian Air Force due to poor after-sales maintenance services, the Hindustan Times cited the air force chief as saying.
http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20090526/155093776.html
Russian Air Force to get 34 warplanes rejected by Algeria
Published: Tue January 13th, 2009 via: RIA Novosti
MOSCOW, January 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Air Force will receive later this year 34 modern MiG-29 SMT and MiG-29 UBT fighter jets that Algeria refused to accept under an earlier contract, a Russian Defense Ministry source said on Tuesday.
Russian arms export monopoly Rosoboronexport had signed a $1.3 bln contract to deliver 29 one-seat MiG-29SMT fighters and six two-seat MiG-29UB fighters to Algeria in March 2006 as part of an $8 billion military cooperation agreement.
However, after receiving 15 MiG fighters, Algeria refused further deliveries in May 2007. It then froze all payments under contracts with Russia in October 2007, requiring that Moscow first take back the 15 MiG-29s due to their "inferior quality."
http://air-attack.com/news/article/3...y-Algeria.html
Russian submarine K-141 Kursk
Kursk sailed out to sea to perform an exercise of firing dummy torpedoes at the Pyotr Velikiy, a Kirov-class battlecruiser. On August 12, 2000 at 11:28 local time (07:28 UTC), there was an explosion while preparing to fire the torpedoes.
The only credible report to date is that this was due to the failure and explosion of one of the Kursk's hydrogen peroxide-fueled torpedoes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian...ne_K-141_Kursk
The Russian Northern Fleet Nuclear submarine accidents
K-19 [“The Widow Maker”]
The first nuclear accident to occur on a Russian submarine was on the Northern Fleet's ballistic missile submarine K-19 (Project 658 - Hotel class). On July 4, 1961, during exercises in the North Atlantic, a leak developed in an inaccessible part of the submarine K-19's primary cooling circuit. The leak was specifically located to a pipe regulating the pressure within the primary cooling circuit. The leak caused a sudden drop in pressure, setting off the reactor emergency systems.
Other nuclear submarine accidents include:
K-8
K-219
K-278 (Komsomolets)
K-11
K-27
K-140
K-429
K-222
K-123
K-314
K-431
K-192 (formerly K-131)
K-3
K-47
http://spb.org.ru/bellona/ehome/russia/nfl/nfl8.htm