When you let the last parts of your empire fall away to a band of peasants led by a wrinkled old fart, let your home nation be run by chavs and unpaid prostitutes and allow unchecked immigration from the most barbaric parts of the planet...it’s rather inevitable that your technical ability will eventually start to fail you.
Better to find out now, then later when it’s halfway across the world and engaged in support.
Stand by for the same kind of issues with our Zumwalt class.
They used Lucas Electric! I TOLD them not to use Lucas Electric!
Sorry, old British sports car joke. How you could possibly under-spec a vital generator is a bit difficult to imagine. Possibly some of the other systems draw a bit more than they said they would? Heads will roll, old boy...
Just like our 4 billion dollar cant afford the ammo stuck in the panama canal USS Zumwalt
Cannot sail and soon no missiles due to budget cuts.
Meanwhile the Chinese and Russians have missiles.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/735869/China-missile-hypersonic-Russia-Putin-Nato-targets-300-miles-away
Does it run off Obama Bio Fuel ?
The key sentence and probably the cause is they use “clean” power. Along with the environmental insanity they probably don’t use corrosion preventatives like cadmium platting. This anti corrosion insanity caused products my former company built that never had problems before to fail right out of the box.
“All six Type 45s, which are based at Portsmouth, are fitted with a revolutionary integrated electrical propulsion system which drives the ship with “clean” power. “
I hope it’s some consolation to the Brits to know even in defeat they are “saving” the planet.
All these “green” ships are going to have to be scuttled. LMAO
Oh wait, we have an Obama so never mind.