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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
Cost.
Korean Daewoo- £452million.
Italian Fincantieri-£675 million.
UK shipyards- no final quotes, so no chance of a contract!
The Italians would have shared 35% of the building of just one of the ships with BAE. Being BAE even that would probably have had massive delays and cost over-runs.
Incidentally, we'll probably be buying at least 3 more ships off Daewoo.
Cost. The same reason we buy Chinese white goods, clothes and nearly ever
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Hmm...you buy a fridge for £100 and it don't work 12 months later..you don't worry too much, you buy another...you buy a brand new car, it's underpowered, it's a rattletrap with poor cornering, cruddy fuel consumption and has the dashboard equivalent of a 1970 Ford Cortina, but it gets you from A to B, that's ok too, until you try to upgrade and trade in.
You buy a warship, it leaks, it's shoddy and it's so underpowered that it can't keep up with a Somali pirate vessel...major problem...the tories have googled 'cheap warship for sale'
Daewoo..jack of all trades master of none!