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Aeolienne

A lean green war machine!

Royal Navy's £800m to rule the waves - Business Analysis & Features, Business - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/royal-navys-163800m-to-rule-the-waves-820738.html

"HMS 'Daring', the Senior Service's new recruit, is a state-of-the-art anti-aircraft destroyer."
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"Daring may be designed to blow aircraft out of the sky, but it [she!] is also environmentally friendly. The destroyer uses 30 per cent less fuel than a similar sized ship (the electricity is generated by two fuel-efficient Rolls Royce gas turbines, backed by diesel engines, which drive huge electric motors which turn the props) and can do 7,000 miles – to America and back – on a single tank. It is the first front-line warship to be electrically powered: it generates 47 megawatts of power - enough, apparently, to light Dundee. Its quietness adds to the radar-repelling stealth of its shape in avoiding enemy attention."
Jonnyboy

Quote:
The Principle anti-missile system, or PRAAMS, is again the most advanced in the world. The software has taken up a chunk of the £800m, says Combat Systems manager Stuart Justice, and "is classified at the highest level". Despite this, it runs off Windows and is not above crashing. There is a "core functionality" in place for emergencies, as well as systems to prevent accidental firings and misidentification of aircraft.


Plus, in my head it's called HMS darling, in a blackadderesque way.

Apart from that, it's way cool.
gnome

now if they had gone for an open source operating system like linux, they could have saved a few bob, and not have a system that can easily be accessed at any time by bill gates..
Aeolienne

I wonder what the whales and dolphins will make of it?
vegplot

gnome wrote:
now if they had gone for an open source operating system like linux, they could have saved a few bob


A few bob literally or even a few pounds but not much more.

gnome wrote:
and not have a system that can easily be accessed at any time by bill gates..


How?
vegplot

Jonnyboy wrote:

Plus, in my head it's called HMS darling, in a blackadderesque way.


I read it that way as well.
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