Putting historical navies into a fictional setting raises the question of which institutional habits would survive a change in technology. The Soviet example imagines an urgent desire to put a Star Destroyer into space, with defects accepted provided the ship broadly works. That willingness to accept faults extends the earlier smoke joke into a criticism of safety priorities. The comparison also acknowledges that dangerous operating practices are not confined to one navy.
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Which naval habits would survive in a Star Destroyer?
The Soviet concept tests how pressure to field an impressive new ship could carry familiar reliability and safety problems into space.