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Cruise ships are cookie-cutter designs relative to military ships due to...more ships per class (model)? Lack of armament? They are still made of steel, are we
by linksnapzz 7y ago
Cruise ships are cookie-cutter designs relative to military ships due to...more ships per class (model)? Lack of armament?
They are still made of steel, are welded/riveted together in modules, and must be watertight. Is the knowledge of how to properly weld a hull-section for a commercial ship utterly nontransferable to military work?
- gk1 7y agoOne of them is a war machine made by the world's richest country to defeat the war machines of other very rich countries. The other is a floating hotel.
- jandrese 7y agoAt the very least the floating hotel can theoretically be built out of several nearly identical sections, since hotel rooms are largely all the same fore to aft. Cargo ships have the same benefit. That said, most of the cost savings is probably just economies of scale. Civilian fleets are much larger than military fleets.
- LgWoodenBadger 7y agoDoes a machine's purpose change how the welding for that machine is done?
- timonovici 7y agoProbably because of different alloys used, different thickness. You don't expect a commercial ship to be shot at with missiles.
- at_a_remove 7y agoYes. I learned a couple of afternoon's worth of welding (TIG and MIG, with a dash of spot) and looked at some books regarding it. I realized that I was staring into a piece of craft that would take years to actually master the nuances of, if I were even capable of it. Very much, yes. Yes because of the probably different steels in a cruise ship versus a battleship, yes because of lifetime expectancies, yes because of stresses expected, yes because of inspection schedules. I probably don't have even a good enough sense of what is required to come up with half of where the differences would lie.
- mcguire 7y agoWhy is building a house cheaper than building a ship?
- briffle 7y agoHow many people try shooting at your house?