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Originally Posted by Farmer John
It seems that every time lately I have made a large investment in buying something, something has gone wrong shortly after it's delivery which takes the shine off a transaction that has had to be thought out and budgeted for. It seems it can happen to countries as well as individuals, but has this happened here?
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John she is still effectively on Builders Trials and in this case being module construction she was built in sections by other Shipbuilders who will be onboard to guarantee the module they have built.
Trials can be frustrating even on Merchant Vessels which have a lot less systems than this giant Aircraft Carrier, it will take time to get things settled down and hopefully (to quote the often used statement) lessons will be learnt in regards to making improvements to the next build. Sister ships are never identical, the thinking used to be, never sail on the first of the series as they are the prototype and never sail on the last of the series as they are usually the "bitsza build".
At the moment the Bow has not fallen off which happened to one of those super duper Japanese builds which were often quoted as being better built.
As there are only two Carriers being built the choice is prototype or lessons learned vessel.