Automating Future Aircraft Carriers

Roland Piquepaille writes "Britain and France will jointly build three new huge aircraft carriers which will be delivered between 2012 and 2014. With their 60,000 tonnes, these 275-meter-long carriers will be the largest warships outside of the U.S. Navy. They're going to cost about $4 billion each, but with their reduced crews due to automation, they'll save lots of money to taxpayers during their 50 years of use. StrategyPage tells us that these ships will need at most a crew of 800 sailors instead of 2,000 for ships of that size today. At a cost of $100K per sailor per year, this represents savings of more than $6 billion. Impressive -- if it works."

Comments

Re:bad trend

[welcher]

take a history lesson, troll.

Re:bad trend

[vought]

In fact, when facing a country such as the US or EU which has basic respect for the rules of war (eg, the Geneva Convention), a "fair" war pretty much maximizes the number of people killed.

About the Geneva Conventions? President Bush says he doesn't have to. And you might want to ask the Iraqi with the glowstick up his ass (or the one chained to a dog), or the "terrorist" in Gitmo told that menstrual blood was smeared on his Koran) about those Geneva Conventions. Check with the people we've sent to Syria for interrogation; ask them about the U.S.' respect for the Geneva Convenstions.

I'm sure they'd all find the notion of the U.S. playing by the rules rather quaint. The respect people once had for us as a nation came partially from the fact that we wouldn't sink to the level of our enemies. We didn't put the Germans in concentration camps. And we certainly didn't fly airplanes into the tallest buildings in Riyadh... ...but we bombed the fuck out of a country that had nothing - nothing - to do with 9/11. And we're still there while we hand over shovelfuls of money to the one country that had a lot to do with the 19 dead in hell sons of Wahhabi bitches who attacked us.

War isn't like it used to be.

Get over it.

[pimpimpim]

The links in Roland's slashdot posts are not anymore to his own blog, but directly to the original article. And he has a special tag. Really, no one is plugging anything here, what do you want more? You can just skip it if you don't want to read it.