Originally Posted by
etudiant
Most likely it was.
I toured one of the earlier LHDs under construction during a visit to the Ingalls shipyard long ago, it was indeed a rats nest of wiring.
I've no idea whether there are any Navy specific fire resistance requirements now, but all the stuff looked commercial grade, judging by the labels on the spools.
If memory serves, the US had a nuclear plant under construction essentially wrecked because the wiring caught fire while a construction worker was using a candle to check for air leaks .
So cabling fires are a real risk and often hugely destructive. But I'd have thought the military would by now have switched to non flammable cabling
Naval ships use a NATO coded standard and they have upgraded wiring. Bonnie Dick was built 25 years ago...
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