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Old 07-23-15, 03:29 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by mapuc View Post
These type of missiles have to work 110 % they are the ships first defense against ASM, Bombers etc.

Markus
Well, in the real world, nothing ever works 110% or even 100%. That's why one of the most important measures of effectiveness is not just how fail-proof something is, but even more so - how well it fails.
In the airline industry, for example, if you look at the big picture - jet engines fail all the time, but you'd have to go quite a few years back to find a large airliner brought down by blowing out its engine. They're just engineered to fail without catastrophic consequences. That's something that any major system should be engineered for.

From that perspective, it seems like everything worked pretty brilliantly here - noone hurt, no major damage, ship is operational. Well done to all involved.
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