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US contractor to help Spain slim down overweight submarine that officials fear can’t surface
Washington Post ^
| June 5
| Ap
Posted on 06/06/2013 11:53:54 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
HARTFORD, Conn. — A new, Spanish-designed submarine has a weighty problem: The vessel is more than 70 tons too heavy, and officials fear if it goes out to sea, it will not be able to surface.
And a former Spanish official says the problem can be traced to a miscalculation — someone apparently put a decimal point in the wrong place.
“It was a fatal mistake,” said Rafael Bardaji, who until recently was director of the Office of Strategic Assessment at Spain’s Defense Ministry.
The Isaac Peral, the first in a new class of diesel-electric submarines, was nearly completed when engineers discovered the problem. A U.S. Navy contractor in Connecticut, Electric Boat, has signed a deal to help the Spanish Defense Ministry find ways to slim down the 2,200-ton submarine.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: divedive; electricboat; spain; submarines
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To: Pan_Yan
swapout the lead acid batteries for supercapacitors, problem solved
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posted on
06/06/2013 12:29:20 PM PDT
by
jyro
(French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
To: George from New England
So an error even bigger than the space industries metric to English conversion error of ten years ago !!
Didn’t they land on Jupiter instead of Mars from the oversight!
Yes, and that's why it tipped over and sank
22
posted on
06/06/2013 12:37:44 PM PDT
by
Not now, Not ever!
(Girlfriend suggested I use pelosi in place of swear words, A good idea, I think)
To: George from New England
Didn’t they land on Jupiter instead of Mars from the oversight! They tried to land in Mars because of the oversight.
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posted on
06/06/2013 12:42:26 PM PDT
by
0.E.O
To: jyro
swapout the lead acid batteries for supercapacitors, problem solved It's AIP. No batteries.
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posted on
06/06/2013 12:45:24 PM PDT
by
0.E.O
To: Nervous Tick
“that’s “subo-marino” in Spanish. Means “underwater”.”
Actually it’s “undersea”. Mar is sea. Water is agua.
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posted on
06/06/2013 12:49:24 PM PDT
by
Hugin
To: Hugin
Okay, whatever, “underseawater”. The rest of my silly point still stands. :-)
To: Nervous Tick
No Mac’y DEES for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
06/06/2013 1:00:33 PM PDT
by
Conserev1
("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
To: CaptainAmiigaf
Per the article, they are thinking about making it longer.
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posted on
06/06/2013 1:04:58 PM PDT
by
lacrew
(Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
To: Pan_Yan
Problem solved. Just heard the engineers are going to have them drill holes in the pressure hull to lighten it.
29
posted on
06/06/2013 1:09:59 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: Right Wing Assault
Just make sure they only drill holes on the bottom, or else the water will pour in.
30
posted on
06/06/2013 1:21:41 PM PDT
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: Pan_Yan
“someone apparently put a decimal point in the wrong place.”
That will look good on some fired engineer’s resume.
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posted on
06/06/2013 1:31:06 PM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: Pan_Yan
Must be a product of that Eurotrash socialist edumakation system ... and who gets the call to bail their sorry butts out? Of course ... we do!
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posted on
06/06/2013 1:34:11 PM PDT
by
Babalu
("Tracer rounds work both ways ...")
To: EternalVigilance
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posted on
06/06/2013 1:34:41 PM PDT
by
Babalu
("Tracer rounds work both ways ...")
To: jyro
swapout the lead acid batteries for supercapacitors, problem solved By the time it's feasible to do that they could also swap out the diesel-electric for undersea warp drive.
Better just to add a hull section right now.
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posted on
06/06/2013 1:37:49 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
To: knittnmom
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posted on
06/06/2013 1:52:29 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: Pan_Yan
Even folks who aren't submariners know that a submarine's submergings and surfacings must be an even number. If it's an odd number, you have a very BIG problem.
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
06/06/2013 2:21:33 PM PDT
by
Clintons Are White Trash
(If stupid ever reaches $150 a barrel then I want the drilling rights to Maxine Water's head.)
To: TexasRepublic
...Close enough for government work!...
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posted on
06/06/2013 2:29:46 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(The best is the enemy of the good!)
To: Pan_Yan
And to think Spain was once the top seafaring nation in the world....some years ago
Now....Columbus would have drowned at port
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posted on
06/06/2013 2:44:28 PM PDT
by
SeminoleCounty
(GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
To: Nervous Tick
Mein Gott! Das Unterzee Boot ist kaput! Dummkopfs!
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posted on
06/06/2013 4:50:41 PM PDT
by
Hugin
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