{"id":20386,"date":"2013-05-22T16:33:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20386"},"modified":"2013-05-22T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:33:27","slug":"spain-needs-to-put-new-submarine-design-on-a-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/spain-needs-to-put-new-submarine-design-on-a-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain needs to put new submarine design on a diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If they launch the new class of submarines as designed, they <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/spanish-submarine-cannot-resurface-634\/\" target=\"_blank\">might not be able to re-surface after diving<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spanish engineers, who already spent some $680 million on designing the new generation S-80 class submarine, say it is a major \u201ctechnical innovation.\u201d There is just one problem the calculations show \u2013 if submerged into water, it may never come up again.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish media has been furiously discussing the errors made by the state-owned Navantia construction company, which has spent about a third of the huge $2.2 billion budget only to produce an \u2018overweight\u2019 submarine that is not able to float.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s Ministry of Defense has confirmed that Navantia detected \u201cdeviations\u201d in the new submarine\u2019s design, thus delaying its March 2015 scheduled launch for one or two years.<\/p>\n<p>Navantia said an excess weight of up to 100 tons has been added to the sub during construction, and the company may have to redesign the whole craft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If they launch the new class of submarines as designed, they might not be able to re-surface after diving: Spanish engineers, who already spent some $680 million on designing the new generation S-80 class submarine, say it is a major \u201ctechnical innovation.\u201d There is just one problem the calculations show \u2013 if submerged into water, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,5],"tags":[140,30,335,364],"class_list":["post-20386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-military","tag-design","tag-navy","tag-spain","tag-submarine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5iO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20388,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20386\/revisions\/20388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}