We have invested in billions of $$$ in emergency equipment that may never be used. It is only when it is actually put in theater under real world conditions that we are able to actually evaluate it and recommend upgrades. I don't know how long that dock had set in storage prior to use, but I'm glad we were not using it to land troops when it failed.

When war reserve material is taken out of reserve, it is not uncommon for it to fail, sometimes in a spectacular fashion. It is like taking a race car, putting it up on blocks, changing the fluids and rubber components as needed, then after a year putting it in the Daytona 500. What could go wrong?

I wonder if there was some help from the Israeli government in the sinking? I truly would not put it past Bibi to find a way to destroy this.

This kind of shit really pisses me off. War and munitions need to have the profit taken out of them, perhaps this kind of waste would be eliminated for the lunacy that it is!
What an incredible waste. The fact that the amount spent on this could have been used to resettle the displaced folk because the bombs we have provided have decimated there homes.

Very disturbing. A mutually agreeable pact needs to be put together taking into account all legitimate claims. Far less resources will be used to destroy and hopefully can be redirected to employ the displaced.

It was never anything more than pork barrel spending and virtue signaling.