The problem I had with geometry was showing why the obvious was obvious. It took me a while to figure out that most people couldn’t see things the way I saw them. It did help when I started coding and had to tell computers how to do things.
]]>And now it looks like they are going to have to replace their Taipan helicopters. Play with snakes, expect to be bitten.
]]>The real cost, assuming the goods are delivered & work, will be over AU$1 Trillian just for the next 30 years! Another NBN & Collins!
F’k ’em all!
]]>BAE has a local office as Eglin AFB is the US military’s prime development center for airborne weapons systems. The problem with the company is too much diversity.
The Germans seem to have had success with AIP/Diesel submarines and have made sales to other countries. I don’t see GE Electric Boat putting on extra people for foreign orders, even if they could find the people. They have been limited to US government financing and basically building the same sub for years, I’m not sure how well they could adopt to an Australian order. This is a political problem and it should be a military problem first.
It’s above my paygrade, but I know that when my aircraft when in for equipment upgrades, we had to relearn how to work when it came back because the new equipment was in different places in the racks and the colors and shapes of the knobs were wrong.
Whatever they do, the crews are going to need training before the subs are delivered.
]]>Yep! But ALL of the problems (you can include NBN and other disasters the past half century) were caused BY the damned Governments, both State and Fed plus both ALP and LNP! They are all bloody incompetent and the entire “tender” process is primary school level at best!
My old Project Management Mentor and teacher, who was Primary Proj. Mgr. on Collins in SA, asked me to go and spend a weekend as a Engineering Consultant (given my GD creds and the fact that I had the highest level AU security clearance). He was very worried. I told everyone working on the 1st boat to get lost. Took a walk around & through the half built boat with my PM mate… Stopped with something really nagging at me… and my mate said “Yeah! Something strange is wrong here!” I walked though much slower, checked every mm of it… Then it hit me! One section had been plasma welded in place… the wrong way around! The stupid design had bugger all redundancy. There was a single armored conduit down one side of the boat for cables, pipes etc. On this one section, the conduit was on the wrong side! The two segments had to be replaced. I told my friend all the other issues I saw (which came to light for years after launch) and suggested he resign with a detailed letter as to why and cover his arse! He did.
I wouldn’t trust them to design a working mouse trap!
]]>BAE’s construction of the Astute class submarines has been a disaster. Somehow BAE managed to create a submarine more expensive than a Virginia class submarine (the Seawolf was cancelled due to expense) but not as capable. I’m not sure how they think they’re going to do better on the AUKUS submarines.
]]>My understanding is that this was about desire to a punish local shipbuilding for problems on recently delivered vessels and political friction between local and federal powers. The Navy felt it was time to replace the current subs and concerned about Chinese influence. I know that New Zealand doesn’t want anything nuclear around, and have felt there was probably a similar vibe in Australia. That and cost excluded nuclear powered subs in the original RFP. I assume that the US/UK are subsidizing part of this deal and am positive that you’re right about some elements on the US subs to be delivered will be removed.
]]>You may, possibly, have something to celebrate next week. Though, I’ll believe it when it happens. 😉
https://theDonald Trump says he will be arrested on Tuesday, calls for protests
Good luck all!
]]>Not exactly a celebration, but different strokes…
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