Simple incompezency and low quality spare parts. I think the turkish made. valve did brake and flooded the ship. The rest was incompetency of a wanabe nato power.
Of course russian navy also has accidents but they are testing advanced torpedos with dangerous ignition. Not killing the poor sailors in their own harbour...
1st of all , all parts in the ship are specially testes, fullfill requirement of ISO , also receives a permission from classification societies, which is known as elite league " IACS ".
2ndly, turkish navy doesnt take all the parts directly, 1stly tests it , gets all data relevant with parts , also any part to be replaced during maintenance are replaced with permission from classification society,and then navy's permission and test.
I have experienced this by myself, one of the fire sprays in the room havent provided required pressure of water at inlet of nozzle( the value was %3 ,while %5 is accepted in regulation , as engineering accuracy) , army request CFD ,corrected analyze from classification society,and then tested it , to be sure about rest of sprays. And then that spray is changed .
the issue with that ship remains unkown , but there are 3 facts, whoever giving commands wasnt thats high experienced to handle situation,also staff was inexperienced due to lack of training ,they ran into ship while capsize ,also one more thing is mentioned " fire fighting system of ship might be online during inclination at 1st phase, and killed some of staff inside ship and then weight additing triggered 2nd phase , the capsize ; one more thing, unfixed weights resulted a worse shift in center of gravity at 1st inclination phase. The same reason for Korean passenger capsized while maneuver.
To point of these ;
-1st its not about valve leave aside about being turkish produced valve , also its not so easy a ballast tank's valve would be broken (briefly ,almost imposibbile)
-2nd its not about NATO ,those engineers trained in turkey , naval academy,by lecturers which is best in their subjects.
-3rd, i have seen russian shipyards, heard plenty of accidents of them (usually accidents handled in classifed security clearance level), just maybe didnt spread this wide. ( there are even worse accidents in Turkish shipyard , resulted in material loss, no casuality but remains classified )
And whatever u call accidents while torpedo test, i know procedure for tests, and none of them relates a loose , casualty , they all have their own rules, in each step of test to minimalize possibility of accident.
My suggestion for you;
Stop looking down on turkish products, there are valve suppliers to netherland, finland , england and UAE (also some more) to be used in yachts and other platforms. All those are applied by ISO , IACS .(i gave valve as explain, since related to what you say there are other products)
2ndly, stop looking down on NATO, they have a good system of rules and regulations to be applied in navy shipyards, shipbuilding,and quality control.
3rd , stop praising Russia.
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Neptune mate, is this explanation enough for him ?
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