The submarine that sank...

#history #learning #submarine #mistakes #funny #learn #spain

[Ratelau]

That sounds like a designers problem, not the nation's.

[Tigerfire]

Just so people know General Dynamics was not the designer that screwed up. They were hired to help fix the mistakes because of their knowledge of the subject.

[Eggs_hatching]

this is why math is important in school

[Manu-Official]

if you think that's a most expensive mistake....

Liz Truss, who was uk's prime minister for about 27 minutes, came to parliament with a new budget. It sent the markets plunging and wiped off £250 Billion out of the UK's economy.

[KoOkiEzRoCkz]

As someone entering the field as a design engineer, this is my nightmare

[joshcantrell]

How do you figure 600 million? The cost rose from 479 to 978. That’s 500 million right there. And they got 4 subs. That’s at least 2 billion right there…

[silentservant_]

Such irony. When at one point in history Spain had the greatest and mightiest naval fleet in the world.

[crystalairgood]

This may be the first case if NOT ENOUGH oversight instead of the usual super extra redundancy with most federal type agencies in most countries

[American_Diogenes]

As the obvious designer, how could this miscalculation NOT be General Dynamics’ fault?! As such, General Dynamics should have been solely responsible for the additional costs for the submarines, but not the extensions of the docks!!!

[leeduncan]

Should have let BAE Systems build them.

[jimmyj]

One decimal point..

Imagine how screwed they would have been if they didn’t use metric..

[starby]

Politicians just blame other people but themselves

[jorgegallo]

In Spain they always measure wrong - like the new train for the Asturias tunnel: Too big!

[SD-jfnb]

And they're still paying off the Spanish Armada.

[Emppu_T.]

for goverments those are rookie numbers.

[Raycheetah]

Makes me wonder what Spain needed a fleet of submarines for? =0[.]o=

[timothylessing]

Why is there military base at cartajena 😳 so much chochaine

[livinthedream]

At that point, one has to think, "does Spain REALLY need this submarine?"

[krispbiscuit]

It cost exactly double??
Can you please explain how a misplaced decimal did that? I'm bad at math, but this doesn't seem right.

[feudalsunrise]

Well, that's maybe the reason why Spain is poor country.