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The current Private Eye has an interesting article "Up the Creek" and a letter "All at Sea" featuring Type 45 Destroyers.
Worth reading.
Worth reading.
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This is the online summary:
"UP THE CREEK
More on the expensive fiasco of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers, built by BAE Systems and whose faulty electrics can turn them in to lame ducks. "
I think the full article is only available in print.
The current Private Eye has an interesting article "Up the Creek" and a letter "All at Sea" featuring Type 45 Destroyers.
Worth reading.
The current Private Eye has an interesting article "Up the Creek" and a letter "All at Sea" featuring Type 45 Destroyers.
Worth reading.
I'd quit while your behind Billy, and buy a newspaper that has journalists that do their research. If you find such a newspaper let me know as I've never found one.
Errrmm - kinda losing the plot here. I thought that the "scandal" was focused on the unreliability of the electrical propulsion system (braced for incoming from the Engineers) which is to be rectified at the tax payers expense rather than BAE shareholders. If BMW released a car with a faulty alternator then they would issue a recall at their expense.
Think you may find that had we acquired twelve ships, some would have been based in Guzz.
Pompey would not have been able to resource and berth twelve T45s, even having six afloat causes no end of snags.
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but the mob got what they asked for. Take into consideration the design changes and iterative updates during the six ship contract and I would vouch that BAE didn't do much wrong
Is FLJ still in use ? , can remember 6 county class berthed there on one occasion plus Bristol early 70's , t'other 2 county's were in dock.What might have been with 12 T45 aside looking at Portsmouth berths today there is sufficient for 6 T45 and more space will be available when some decommissioned platforms are moved.
Is FLJ still in use ? , can remember 6 county class berthed there on one occasion plus Bristol early 70's , t'other 2 county's were in dock.
And there was me thinking a T45 starts a refit this year not 2019.....
That article, like many, is written with an agenda but isn't wholly reflective of fact.