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The other key figure is that the entire submarine weighs 2,200 tons. The sub was 3% too heavy and it will cost $14 million to fix, big woop, worse happens 1,00
by dm2 13y ago
The other key figure is that the entire submarine weighs 2,200 tons.
The sub was 3% too heavy and it will cost $14 million to fix, big woop, worse happens 1,000 times per day all around the world.
- rtanaka 13y agoJust to add to that - it's $14 million on top of a $2.7 billion project.
- mdigi 13y agoThis is a great example of an attention whoring headline. When you get into the details there's actually no news here.
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoDidn't they miscalculate a [the?] vital characteristic (buoyancy) on a 2.7B project. Seems news worthy.
- dm2 13y ago"Here is 2.7 billion dollars, build me a super high-tech submarine (with specific specs) and DO NOT make any mistakes." Sounds easy, right? A military contractor going slightly over budget is not news worth, it's database or list worthy at best. Throw the data on wikipedia with the other million projects that had a hiccup or needed more funding, then be done with it.
- muzz 13y agono, that's not the cost to fix the $14M is just for "an assessment of the problem with the S-80 submarine program and the scope of the work that would be required to correct it"
- dm2 13y agook, so $14M + parts and labor
- sliverstorm 13y agoI wonder what book time is?
- Jare 13y ago$14 million to find a solution, not to actually put that solution in place. A delay of two years in the $2.7B project will cost at least an order of magnitude more than $14M.
- dm2 13y agoEven if it costs hundreds of millions of dollars, big woop. How much have we spent on F-35 research, trillions? And those things don't even work in space.
- D-Coder 13y agoOr under water!
- dm2 13y agoNot really practical for an aircraft to operate underwater, but someday operating in space might not be inconceivable. My point was that for trillions of dollars, the aircraft better do some cool shit. Yes, crash avoidance is awesome, but not trillions awesome. The sea is arguably more valuable than space in terms of military value, an underwater vehicle is practically invisible and can deliver massive amounts of firepower to any region in the world. Not to mention the secret mission capabilities of submarines such as tapping undersea fiber and special forces delivery.