It seems like CVF is far enough along that at least one of them will
actually touch salt water, unlike the last CVA-01 QE and PoW, which is a
good thing. I really want to see those CVFs splitting water.
BAE has taken over a lot of US Navy efforts in the past few years. Several
former co-workers of mine are now working for BAE writing training for US
Navy gun mounts, manufactured by BAE subsidiaries here in the US.
This is related to TNE because spaceships are just alternate reality real
ships, and in the game we get to make sure they actually get "built"
instead of cancelled.
Dave
> Hi Dave,
>
> I work for a company in Gosport (near Portsmouth, UK) who do a lot of
> defence contract work for the likes of Thales, Honeywell & BAE. We've just
> finished the Combat Management System (electronics rack units) and Ops
> Room consoles for the first ship. The latter which I've been working on
> for the last ten months - project managing for six of them!
>
> The whole way defence contracts get fulfilled is bizarre, but Hey! at
> least it keeps us in work...:)
>
> --- In , dcndcn13@... wrote:
>>
>> Hey, Martin!
>>
>> Good for you! What are you working on? Or would you have to kill me?
>>
>> Is it just me or do other people note how dramatically ship-building has
>> turned into a bizarre work-sharing arrangement? Everything we build
>> nowadays, except maybe CVNs in Norfolk or DDGs in Bath, involves barging
>> big chunks of hull all over the place to preserve local jobs. This is
>> also
>> true in aviation, where chunks of Airbuses or 787s or F/A-18s get hauled
>> all over the place in outsize "Super Guppy-fied" 747s or Belugas
>> (actually
>> flat-bed trucks for the Super Hornets). Sure, it keeps manufacturing
>> jobs,
>> but I can't be the only one imagining how much this is contributing to
>> spiralling unit cost.
>>
>> Oh well, at least we're still building something.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
>
actually touch salt water, unlike the last CVA-01 QE and PoW, which is a
good thing. I really want to see those CVFs splitting water.
BAE has taken over a lot of US Navy efforts in the past few years. Several
former co-workers of mine are now working for BAE writing training for US
Navy gun mounts, manufactured by BAE subsidiaries here in the US.
This is related to TNE because spaceships are just alternate reality real
ships, and in the game we get to make sure they actually get "built"
instead of cancelled.
Dave
> Hi Dave,
>
> I work for a company in Gosport (near Portsmouth, UK) who do a lot of
> defence contract work for the likes of Thales, Honeywell & BAE. We've just
> finished the Combat Management System (electronics rack units) and Ops
> Room consoles for the first ship. The latter which I've been working on
> for the last ten months - project managing for six of them!
>
> The whole way defence contracts get fulfilled is bizarre, but Hey! at
> least it keeps us in work...:)
>
> --- In , dcndcn13@... wrote:
>>
>> Hey, Martin!
>>
>> Good for you! What are you working on? Or would you have to kill me?
>>
>> Is it just me or do other people note how dramatically ship-building has
>> turned into a bizarre work-sharing arrangement? Everything we build
>> nowadays, except maybe CVNs in Norfolk or DDGs in Bath, involves barging
>> big chunks of hull all over the place to preserve local jobs. This is
>> also
>> true in aviation, where chunks of Airbuses or 787s or F/A-18s get hauled
>> all over the place in outsize "Super Guppy-fied" 747s or Belugas
>> (actually
>> flat-bed trucks for the Super Hornets). Sure, it keeps manufacturing
>> jobs,
>> but I can't be the only one imagining how much this is contributing to
>> spiralling unit cost.
>>
>> Oh well, at least we're still building something.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
>