> This will never succeed because the economies of scale are nonexistent without dominance in the commercial shipbuilding market.
This is what politicians just don’t seem to realise about industry and engineering.
People get good at things by doing them repeatedly and optimising. That’s the only proven way. So of course if we build a couple of naval ships every decade, maybe a giant train line every 30 years or similar, it will be done terribly.
Then there’s lots of hand wringing about how we can’t do this any more.
We are so, so far behind China in industrial capacity now. If we ever did get in a war with them they’d outbuild us 10 to 1. Technical advantages would be pretty much irrelevant at that level.
This is what politicians just don’t seem to realise about industry and engineering.
People get good at things by doing them repeatedly and optimising. That’s the only proven way. So of course if we build a couple of naval ships every decade, maybe a giant train line every 30 years or similar, it will be done terribly.
Then there’s lots of hand wringing about how we can’t do this any more.
We are so, so far behind China in industrial capacity now. If we ever did get in a war with them they’d outbuild us 10 to 1. Technical advantages would be pretty much irrelevant at that level.