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Without more details it's hard to say what exactly went wrong, but it is not at all clear that a ballpark estimate would be of any help here: The submarine weig
by anonymouz 13y ago
Without more details it's hard to say what exactly went wrong, but it is not at all clear that a ballpark estimate would be of any help here: The submarine weighs 2200 tons, and they think it's 70 tons too heavy.
- coldarchon 13y agoActually it is 75 tons too heavy, they stretched the sub out to get more buoyancy but now they have NO IDEA how heavy it really is ..
- damoncali 13y agoThe bigger point is that 70 tons should not sneak up on you. They should have been managing weights carefully throughout the process.
- Someone 13y agoOn the one hand, you are right. Preventing things like this (a 3% budget overrun) in large projects is very, very difficult. On the other hand, if this really is a single off by ten error, this was not a death by a thousand cuts, but someone must have reported that his 80 ton part only weighed 8 tons. That must have been noticeable, even if it got reported for a 'part' where nobody has a natural feel for its weight (for example, what do living quarters, with kitchen, supplies, and water for the showers weigh?)