i'd laugh, but, we have on costing five times as much in tow...
Posted on 11/24/2016 10:39:35 AM PST by McGruff
A Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer has been towed back into port just two days after it sailed following a total propulsion failure while taking part in Nato exercises.
The Daring class warship, HMS Duncan, left Devonport naval base at Plymouth on Sunday take part in a series of maritime wargames with Spanish, Portuguese and German warships.
But the 4,500 tonne hi-tech ship limped back into Plymouth on Wednesday under tow and shadowed by three additional dockyard tugs as well as the Ministry of Defence police.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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.
The loss of people that actually know how to do things is not a good thing for any society. All I see now days is people walking around staring at their phones.
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...
Hey, now! If I wasn’t staring at my phone, I wouldn’t have seen your post!
Just like our 4 billion dollar cant afford the ammo stuck in the panama canal USS Zumwalt
LOL...
Lucas Electric the official supplier of Darkness.
Don’t forget a cradle to grave welfare system for anyone too lazy to work.
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
>>it’s rather inevitable that your technical ability will eventually start to fail you.
It’s not that. There’s a video out on this class of warships and they are really a technological wonder. I’ve worked in industrial automation for my whole life, starting in the US Navy and then through a career in manufacturing and utilities. When the documentary got down to the engineering spaces and they were showing the high-tech used down there, I got cold chills. That sort of stuff is great in a fixed location where you can drive home at the end of the day, but I prefer the ship’s engineering plant to be tried-and-true mature technology.
i'd laugh, but, we have on costing five times as much in tow...
Lucas, the Prince of Darkness.
Does it run off Obama Bio Fuel ?
It appears it does not run at all
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.
Sometime in the ‘80s I was sitting on the beach at Virginia’s First Landing State Park which looks out toward Thimble Shoals where all of the ship traffic leaving Norfolk and Newport News going to the Atlantic has to pass. I saw a beautiful new warship go by with a sharp aggressive bow. It was an impressive sight. A few hours later, I saw the same ship being towed back the other way, looking far less impressive.
That’s why the British drink warm beer, you know — they all have Lucas refrigerators.
Another problem that started with Spruance and Ticonderoga classes is the amount of automation gave too few crew members to fight the ship and conduct damage control. That level of automation also resulted in too many problems that could not be fixed underway. Additionally to many desk warriors did not realize you can’t use smart machines and dumb operators.
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