Clive F wrote: pay the Danes for a "warship" design because we haven't got / can't do one. The last time [...] it was 952 years ago and the UK hadn't been invented).
Well, King Canut is still remembered - at least once a year.
shark bait wrote:
There may well be some lessons to learn from the Danes that the more 'traditional' RN would refuse to learn.
Like instead of having Design&Build contracts, which then become impossible to control as all cards have been dealt to one player, have enough separation of Design (that includes providing for future options and modularity) from Build?
Pymes75 wrote:
Don't see any reason why TACTICOS couldn't be selected by other navies in lieu of CMS-1.
The project started with the T-31e moniker, though the "e" is less in use now... so v true.
Ever-lasting truths: Multi-year budgets/ planning by necessity have to address the painful questions; more often than not the Either-Or prevails over Both-And.
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)