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Nova Fox
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Posted - 2010.07.09 23:38:00 -
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Edited by: Nova Fox on 09/07/2010 23:39:48
Politicans are oftenly mistaken that oh if we build less it gets cheaper.
Operational costs aside this is mostly a false fact (operational costs vary from ship to ship from maintenance, manning, to life span of the object in question but rarely if never, is that actually USED as an argument half of the time they only see a price tag and think 'oh gee I can get votes cancelling this one'.)
Highest cost of any new military program is RnD, this cost does not change for the overall project.
So if you planned on building 10 copies and RnD is 1 billion and copies are a million a pop to build in materials that should bring the total bill to 101 million a pop.
Poltiicans think well thats too expensive can we just have one instead.
Congradulations that one ship is now 1billion.
Very few cases where the reverse is opposite where actaully building fewer would save money because the materials used are extremly high priced. Some extremly high tech stuff comes to mind like the B-2 Spirit bomber and the like.
A mordern (considering the tech isnt that drastically different from 20 yrs ago) Anti-air ship should not have such a high copy cost.
BTW BBC sucks and i think they're a bucnh of socialists by restricting free press by not letting other people view thier stuff as I would have loved to see the video.
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Nova Fox
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Posted - 2010.07.10 01:48:00 -
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Redirects displeasure at channel 4,
curse you channel 4 you've first plagued my childhood with inconsitent workings with my vcr and nintendo now you plauge me with denying me mental entertainment.
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Nova Fox
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Posted - 2010.07.10 09:58:00 -
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Battleships obsolete?
Well if you throw in a nuclear reactor, slim down the profile, incorporate some nice multiple spectrum waveform dection systems, Trimeran hull it to prevent spinal snapping with super capating torpedoes should the microwave field counter measure fails to detonate it. Slap a few good Free Electron Lasers for AA and some railguns specifically built for the battleships power system youd probably have a fearsome ship.
This ship could get support fire on spot and on demand faster and possibly outranging any fighter launchable from the carriers, and a decent zone of control least surface and anything above the surface and not be such a big or vunerable target.
Just remember before the tank was very close to becomming exticnt, rather sensless to have a multi million dollar tank destroyed by a 500$ rocket. Thank the brits with thier join innovation with the reactive armors the challengers and abrams greatly enjoy. I would love to see the hull polerized shielding and super banite magnets in action that the brits are developing for thier light weights scouts.
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