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by jjk166 1099 days ago
No one was claiming that it was untestable, the company did decide to go with an acoustic monitoring, which is a destructive test, instead of a scan, which is a nondestructive test. The company claimed there was no non-destructive test that could be done. The issue is that when you're dealing with short run custom components, like the hull of a submarine, just because one passes a destructive test doesn't mean the others are free of manufacturing defects. You can't do useful statistical analysis when your sample size is small.