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Thread: Brisbane is Sunk!
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1st August 2005, 01:23 AM #16Originally Posted by stuart_lees
I am led to believe ( disclaimer ) that when the original specs were drawn up they called for 286 computers
so what did they install when built 286 computers though pentium 3's were available, the 286 couldn't handle the updated fire systems but they still sourced and fitted them cause thats what the specs said, of cause later replaced at taxpayer expense. How many are seaworthy today, why didn't the goverment of the day build the subs the navy asked for, politics.
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Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% ; percentage of Japan that is forest is greater than 70 %
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1st August 2005, 09:47 AM #17
Same happened for the ANZACs. At least they were 386s! Not sure if that has changed since I left, but they were still being built & supplied when P2s were available.
However, at least on the other side of the coin, a 286/386 is still a powerful machine where it comes to this application. And they are built to be shock proof, tempest tested etc etc.
Not that I am condoning the decision to write a product specific contract."Clear, Ease Springs"
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1st August 2005, 10:17 AM #18Originally Posted by stuart_lees
Up graded one part of the system without the rest and it didn't marry in
Not unusual , Thats why they employ so many professionals for their Docking , safety , maintaince schedules these Days
Russell
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Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% ; percentage of Japan that is forest is greater than 70 %
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1st August 2005, 09:15 PM #19
Doesn't surprise me in the least - bloody green steam.
On the Leanders, the Ikara system did it's job...just so long as the operator had a beer before trying to slow his reaction time down sufficiently.
Pity you didn't call then experts, rather than professionals"Clear, Ease Springs"
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1st August 2005, 09:28 PM #20
I was being polite, cause we all know what an expert is
Russell
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Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% ; percentage of Japan that is forest is greater than 70 %
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2nd August 2005, 10:28 AM #21Originally Posted by stuart_lees
Green stem is still supreme
Sam [img]images/icons/icon7.gif[/img][img]images/icons/icon7.gif[/img]
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2nd August 2005, 11:15 AM #22Originally Posted by Ashore
Hard to find the boundary these days Simomatra- running diesels & GTs with green steam makes it hard to have a go at them. Much more fun back in the days when you put on overalls because you needed them!"Clear, Ease Springs"
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2nd August 2005, 02:29 PM #23
thanks to the Greenie for the Greenie. I was a stoker, but all that is now ancient history (pun intended )
"Clear, Ease Springs"
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2nd August 2005, 02:44 PM #24
yo ho ho ye lubbers...
Zed
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2nd August 2005, 11:57 PM #25Originally Posted by stuart_lees
CheersSquizzy
"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" {screamed by maths teacher in Year 8}
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3rd August 2005, 12:08 AM #26
That's the one - that brings back the memories now - getting young cooks to go feed the captain's sea cat.
Got mixed up - appreciate the reminder!
The sea cat used a sacrificial oil system to steer the missile - once you ran out of oil, you ran out of the ability to control it! (Not being a Greenie, I can't get more technical than that)"Clear, Ease Springs"
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3rd August 2005, 08:15 PM #27Originally Posted by stuart_lees
CheersSquizzy
"It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" {screamed by maths teacher in Year 8}
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3rd August 2005, 10:41 PM #28
Apart from neither the Brisbane nor the Collins class Subs being made of wood (it's the WOODEN BOAT FORUM lads) ... it appears that said subs are currently out of the water thanks to a pipe of some description not being up to the job with the possible consequences of these submarines sinking ... without bobbing back up.
Arrrr. I know we can the things, and from time to time they've given us plenty of reason to, but they are still regarded as one of the best non-nuclear powered subs in the world.
As a kid, I had a wooden submarine. It had a rubber band powered prop and if you wound it up properly and got the fins set at the right angle, it could dive just like a real one. Fantastic. I had hours of fun with the frustrating thing. Modern kids wouldn't even look at it if it wasn't remote controlled and could fire torpedos.
Richard
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3rd August 2005, 11:39 PM #29
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5th August 2005, 10:07 AM #30
Last resting
Heres the better photo's for you midge. Don't want to up set the wooden boat forum so only a couple posted any one who wants can PM me I have more and will get the underwatre shots soon
Cheers sam
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