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Fourth success for french M51
french stratege
1/28/2010 11:56:23 AM
and first test from an SLBM. Just compare to Bulava and ask your self who are best engineers considering ressources commited.French or Russians?
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french stratege
1/28/2010 5:18:09 PM
Nice photo from a french britanny village along the shore
http://www.bzhecume.com/surflog/file.php?14,file=56848
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french stratege
1/28/2010 9:07:57 PM
http://www.letelegramme.com/images/2010/01/27/757238_missileok_298x224.jpg" width="272" border="0" />
Four consecutive success of course, and no over spending until now.
Already 5 billion $ spent.
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Nocturne
1/29/2010 10:43:33 AM
don't underestimate russians... their weapons industry is still in soviet union collapse related trauma but they have some smart heads if they get right ppl pay them well they might catch up soon and in many sectors they dont need to do any cacthing up . Bulava is one big disaster but they don't really have a choice just bite the bullet and hope for the best. Still they have some very good engineers just drastically underpaid or working in civilian sector just because of that. In time some bigger projects(bigger money) will get them back
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WarNerd
1/31/2010 5:22:04 AM
The Russians lost their institutional memory. The old timers retired during the hiatus without having a supply of projects to use to show the new designers the little tricks of the trade that have to be learned from experience and cannot be taught. Now they have to reassemble 50 years of hard bought knowledge, mostly by remaking the same mistakes from which that knowledge was gleaned.
Most people, and especially accountants, do not understand how easily institutional knowledge can be lost if not used on a regular basis.
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french stratege
1/31/2010 8:05:47 PM
The Russians lost their institutional memory. The old timers retired during the hiatus without having a supply of projects to use to show the new designers the little tricks of the trade that have to be learned from experience and cannot be taught. Now they have to reassemble 50 years of hard bought knowledge, mostly by remaking the same mistakes from which that knowledge was gleaned.
Most people, and especially accountants, do not understand how easily institutional knowledge can be lost if not used on a regular basis.
It is very true.
If you don't launch project to a regularly basis (10 to 20 years), an defense/industry project organisation loses its competence basis and design skill.
Here video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6gIzCXk-qk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6gIzCXk-qk
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