QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

Re: QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (Bledlow) — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:47:56 GMT

WIWD wrote:
Ken,

Sir, when you make your argument as clearly as you have I must bow before logic and simple plain sanity. I now heartily agree with you that the US have made a complete mess of their next generation ship designs and that whatever the UK does, we will do better than you; and anybody who disagrees with us is a bounder and a cad!

Better in the sense that our mess will be even...

Re: QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (Moskit) — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:33:07 GMT

OK, I'll give you that

As a US chum of mine once said, DDG1000 doesn't float, it's repelled by the ocean!

Re: QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (WIWD) — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:18:55 GMT

Ken,

Sir, when you make your argument as clearly as you have I must bow before logic and simple plain sanity. I now heartily agree with you that the US have made a complete mess of their next generation ship designs and that whatever the UK does, we will do better than you; and anybody who disagrees with us is a bounder and a cad!

Re: QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (Dickon M) — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:58:37 GMT

Gentlemen, we have hit a new low. Once upon a time, we used to argue about who had the BEST navy. Now we argue about who has the WORST ...

Dickon M

Re: QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (Ken the Coastie) — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:48:25 GMT

Why's that then? Anything concrete or just succumbing to the general "glass half empty" pessimism of the board?

Well because it was developed jointly by the UK MoD and UK industry it must be worse than anything the Americans/Europeans/Russians/Chinese/Ruritanians...

Re: QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (WIWD) — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:29:40 GMT

Moskit wrote:
Why's that then? Anything concrete or just succumbing to the general "glass half empty" pessimism of the board?

Well because it was developed jointly by the UK MoD and UK industry it must be worse than anything the Americans/Europeans/Russians/Chinese/Ruritanians (delete as...

Re: QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (Moskit) — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:54:40 GMT

Why's that then? Anything concrete or just succumbing to the general "glass half empty" pessimism of the board?

Re: QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (WIWD) — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:59:52 GMT

It is my understanding that the graphic is just some internal PV work that hasn't been done for the FSC project (otherwise why would they need the NDP?).

Re: QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (Sunk at Narvik) — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:41:31 GMT

Warmed over T23 for a graphic!

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feeds@yuku.com (perfectgeneral) — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:46:35 GMT

I've got a bad feeling about this.

Re: QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (Anthony58) — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:55:52 GMT

Removed as it is a repeat of above.

Re: QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (Anthony58) — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:52:50 GMT

(Source: QinetiQ; issued May 7, 2008)

QinetiQ has signed an initial 11 month contract with the MOD as part of a £2m pilot study which will see a new joint MOD / industry naval ship design office established in Bristol, to be tasked with the design of complex naval ships for the Royal Navy, such as the Future Surface Combatant.

The Naval Design Partnership (NDP), with its 'rainbow team' of talent, which includes Thales, BAE Systems, VT Group, Babcock and BMT,...

QinetiQ signs naval design partnership - C1 concept?

feeds@yuku.com (Rob) — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:28:37 GMT

Link.
http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2008/2nd_quarter/naval_design_partnership.Par.2049.File.tmp/FCS%20concept.jpg