Sounds like a CYA move and hope nobody notices, and they couldn't have glued a more important bolt back together. Can't believe a submarine cruises around without extra hardware.
They twisted the head of the bolt off. There was no easy correct fix, other than to take a ton of time extracting the broken bolt. They took the easy way out and just glued the bolt head in place, hoping the rest of the bolts were enough to hold things together. Usually, critical things are over engineered to stop one bolt failure from being disastrous.
If their military doesn't have extra bolts, screw extractors, and someone who knows how to use them, there's a problem. It's definitely not difficult or time consuming. And yes, most things use more fasteners than it real needs, but if they super glued it back together, they're just trying to make it look not broken so they don't get reprimanded.
Sounds like a CYA move and hope nobody notices, and they couldn't have glued a more important bolt back together. Can't believe a submarine cruises around without extra hardware.
They twisted the head of the bolt off. There was no easy correct fix, other than to take a ton of time extracting the broken bolt. They took the easy way out and just glued the bolt head in place, hoping the rest of the bolts were enough to hold things together. Usually, critical things are over engineered to stop one bolt failure from being disastrous.
If their military doesn't have extra bolts, screw extractors, and someone who knows how to use them, there's a problem. It's definitely not difficult or time consuming. And yes, most things use more fasteners than it real needs, but if they super glued it back together, they're just trying to make it look not broken so they don't get reprimanded.