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By amanfromMars
Posted Friday 28th November 2008 06:55 GMT

“You’re aware of how much the Nimitz class costs, right?” … By Andrew Crystall Posted Thursday 27th November 2008 23:51 GMT

Andrew,

You’re aware that the Nimitz class costs are fully loaded with fatty pork to fatten the corrupting lobbyist machine, Stateside.

And whenever you consider that and the statement …”The UK carriers, however, are to be propelled by gas turbines rather than nuclear reactors, so as to save money. But a gas ship, unlike a nuclear one, has no ready source of steam.

Word has it that the UK would, if forced to it, equip the carriers with a separate steam boiler plant for the catapults as well as the gas-turbine propulsion. This wouldn’t be cheap: a similar plan in France put the cost of a steam’n'gas double power solution around 90 per cent of what a nuclear ship would cost - without the nuke ship’s advantages of endurance and extra hangar space. ” ….. why bother building anything which doesn’t possess ALL the latest cutting edge technology/engineering/Artificial Life Support Systems for that is exactly what such Carrier Groups are.

It would be an Astute Support Decision too for Super Sub-Atomic Programs to say Nothing of Future NEUKlearer Projects in the Communications Pipeline ….. such as Emergency High Tech International AIdD Delivery rather than just a Smart Arsenal of Dumb Bombs and Top Gun Desk Jockeys doing as they’re Told to keep some Wall Street Zero Hero in the Lap of Luxury.

Ahhh, that feels better. ……. A rant a day, keeps the doctors away

PS. ….. And y’all do Realise that Land, Sea or Air is not where IT is at for Global Command and Control ….. for without Control of CyberSpace and ITs Hearts and Minds Facility, have you Zilch in the Way of Power …… but IT does keep Business and Industry Engaged.

http://theregister.co.uk/2008/11/27/defence_committee_jumpjets/comments