The new British carrier, on the other hand...
Posted on 05/12/2018 7:00:58 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The US Navy’s costliest vessel ever just got pricer, breaching a $12.9 billion cap set by Congress by $120 million, the service told lawmakers this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
If you are a contractor and you are building something for a client who is providing all of the design and engineering. You build it as they designed it and it doesn’t work it is theirs.
Perhaps they should look at the contractors that worked on the ship and see if any special people or groups got preferential treatment obtaining the contracts.
Fix Or Repair Daily
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2016/jul/08/ticker-nearly-1-billion-general-atomics-contract/#
It’s the crooks at General Atomics...
The new British carrier, on the other hand...
Unions and the Øbozo generation. The real engineers and craftsmen are dying off.
The USS Arkansas (CGN 41) had a bent shaft on its port side during installation, never was as fast as the other Virginia Class cruisers. Hated that ship!
The Kuznetsov is pretty but it's a turkey too.
What do you expect from Apple? They have had total control over your devices for decades. You are not deemed intelligent enough to operate them independently.
Never mind, another topic.
Kennedy would be FOUND UNDER RIVER DEAD.
Man, that bridge is way back there. Seems kind of small too.
On the other hand, electromagnetic launch is very cool!
you’re going to give sword guy the red a$$ talking truth like that.
comparing a russian airplane transport to any US cvn is a bit deranged.
It would be a shame if one of these boats was not named after Donald Trump, but only dead Presidents get so honored. Oh well.
Kuznetsov is a carrier. Doesn't carry many aircraft.
Or leave port often. Or at all right now since it needs to be reboilered and Ukraine isn't in the mood to supply them.
I know what it is. I was being sarcastic.
Renamed the USS F35....
Brand new technology has bugs. The science is sound. I have every faith in the engineers to make these systems work flawlessly. It is just a matter of fixing the problems. It is not as if they can’t work. They will.
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