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Bellman 06-26-10 03:39 AM
Astute ?
 
Of course you are - that's why you will watch a film on BBC2 Sun 2100 called 'How to build a nuclear submarine.'
See how the UK spent a £1 billion on her new 'Astute.'

So on a day of F1, 'World Cup' and barbies dont forget to set your recorder -or pick it up later on iPlayer.

TLAM Strike 06-26-10 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Bellman (Post 1428515)
See how the UK spent a £1 billion on her new 'Astute.'
Wow quite a bargain! A Virgina class SSN costs nearly 3 billion USD... :(

Seawolf class SSN 4.4 billion...... :o

Cost of Russian Yasen (Severodvinsk) class SSN about 1 Billion :up:

Cost of Kilo class SSK 300 million :rock:

Bellman 06-27-10 12:47 AM
Astute costing ?
 
Extract from Naval Shipbuilding NorthWest England.

Minister Mr. Bob Ainsworth, on 29 Mar 2010 said in Hansard Column 645W:-

A fully modular build system is being adopted in the build of HMS Astute, HMS Ambush and HMS Artful by BAE SYSTEMS .
The Submarines have a cost of £3,492 million* By comparison American Virginia class submarines cost over $2.4 billion each.
(*source: Parliamentary answer on 17th May 2006).

clive bradbury 06-27-10 03:36 AM
Looking forward to this - it is a three-part series - so should be pretty in-depth (no pun intended!).

Kaleun 06-27-10 07:38 AM
Looking at the BBC2 website, it looks like the other 2 parts are not related to submarines.

The series is called "How to build...."

Part 1/ Nuclear submarine
Part 2/ Jumbo Jet engine
Part 3/ Britains secret engineers

Could be interesting, just not Sub-related!

Kaleun

caymanlee 06-30-10 08:15 AM
interesting, anyone recorded it yet? anyone would share a link to it, that would be very nice

Bellman 06-30-10 09:38 AM
There you go :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ear_Submarine/

caymanlee 06-30-10 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Bellman (Post 1431625)

thanks, but this link available play in UK only.

Fish 07-01-10 01:54 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bellman (Post 1429023)
Extract from Naval Shipbuilding NorthWest England.

Minister Mr. Bob Ainsworth, on 29 Mar 2010 said in Hansard Column 645W:-

A fully modular build system is being adopted in the build of HMS Astute, HMS Ambush and HMS Artful by BAE SYSTEMS .
The Submarines have a cost of £3,492 million* By comparison American Virginia class submarines cost over $2.4 billion each.
(*source: Parliamentary answer on 17th May 2006).
Is that a guaranteed price Bellman? :cool:

In such cases the price easily doubles during building.

Frying Tiger 07-01-10 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Fish (Post 1432827)
Is that a guaranteed price Bellman? :cool:

In such cases the price easily doubles during building.
Am I doing the math wrong? That comes out to over 5 billion US dollars with the current exchange rate, (remember, a US billion is 1000 million) making the Virginia cheaper.

Bellman 07-02-10 05:42 AM
Fish - Politicians = guarantees :arrgh!:
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin.

FT. - 3 UK subs total £3492 million or appx £1164 milliion ea.
Current ROE £1 = $1.52 appx.
Astute $1769 million ea.
cf. Virginia $2400 million ea. (on your terms)

Frying Tiger 07-02-10 10:46 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bellman (Post 1433412)
Fish - Politicians = guarantees :arrgh!:
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin.

FT. - 3 UK subs total £3492 million or appx £1164 milliion ea.
Current ROE £1 = $1.52 appx.
Astute $1769 million ea.
cf. Virginia $2400 million ea. (on your terms)
Ah, that was my error. Thought the price was per ship.
Thanks.

Hawk66 10-23-10 03:31 AM
Is there any media archive for that? Would also like to watch it^^.


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