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- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service8:00Warship trials keep acceptance risk with the builderChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service10:33Testing capacity is part of fleet readinessChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service15:10The first crew turns design drawings into a usable shipChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service27:38Speed trials depend on load, machinery, wind, and currentNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service36:00Crash stops and zigzags test the whole ship at onceChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service45:00Machinery trials establish maintenance baselinesChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service52:29King George V and Prince of Wales show the cost of rushed trialsQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service54:16Destroyer trial reports preserve collisions as well as performanceQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service58:00Navies simulate fire damage with very different risk tolerancesQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:01:19HMS Thetis changed safeguards more than the need for trialsQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:04:06Warship trials must reproduce deliberate human threatsNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:05:08Shore sites expose sensor-integration faults before sea trialsChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:10:38Weapons trials prove the whole kill chain, not just the shotChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:12:10Shakedown cruises tested ships long before computer modelingNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:16:00Shock trials test survivability just short of destructionNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:17:34A newly built radar need not be the same radarQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:23:25Standardized warships still develop individual personalitiesQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:24:12Commissioning crews turn trial evidence into operating doctrineChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:47:04A commissioning manual records culture as well as procedureNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:59:40Radar trials include missile launches and severe weatherQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:12:35Trials may carry academic and journalistic observersQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:43:15Inclining tests measure the edge of a ship's stabilityQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:59:09Gerald R. Ford is a difficult first-of-class, not a planned one-offQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service3:02:51PLAN shipbuilding quantity creates strength and quality-control riskQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class42:00HMS Roberts became a guardship and experimental platformChapter