`Destroyer steam line stress corrosion cracking (Gulf War)`

Glancing reference. Tom invokes the case as a parallel example of "wrong material" — a Gulf War-era destroyer lost its 3000 psi steam line to stress-corrosion cracking because the wrong alloy was used. The case is developed elsewhere in the corpus.

It turns out somebody was supposed to make the parts out of 316 — 304 is what we're going to learn is the garden-variety stainless steel — but they were supposed to make it out of 316 and they made it out of 304. This is the most dramatic case I've ever seen of where you should use 316 and used 304. So the wrong material can make a big difference, just like I told you about that destroyer in the Gulf War — they lost their 3000 psi steam line because of stress corrosion cracking, because it was the wrong alloy. So these are two stories where they used the wrong material.