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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] That's one of the risks of shipbuilding business. It's economically unviable to wait for results from a prototype in most cases. Your ship may turn out a complete dud, like the British Type 42s, and yet you are committed to producing a dozen ships at the very least - stopping and starting anew would cost extra billions, but having originally only contracted for a prototype and then re-contracted for series production would have cost extra billions as well. And even a successful prototype doesn't guarantee the ship will be a success. Take the Type 42s again: HMS Bristol was basically the prototype for them, but a minor fault was found in her - she was one heck of a lot too expensive. So the "series production version" was halved in size, but the MoD folks kept telling themselves that this was a tried and true concept now... With the replacement Type 45, they aren't prototyping at all, because that's too expensive. They do pretty computer art and then order immediate series production, since correcting the design faults after the fact is still less costly than prototyping. (And anyway, the British let the French or the Dutch or the Germans prototype their ships for them, and vice versa, by initially supporting a "joint project" and then withdrawing at the last moment...) Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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