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An try to install a new submarine for Spain’s navy has run aground once more, after it emerged it cannot slot in its dock, Spanish media document.
The S-80 boat used to be redesigned at nice price after an earlier mistake meant it had problems floating, and it was lengthened to right kind the issue.
Spanish newspaper El País now reports that after the adjustments, the docks at Cartagena can now not have compatibility the vessel.
The price for each has nearly doubled, the newspaper said.
It estimated that the cost of each S-EIGHTY “Plus” submarine might now be as regards to €1bn (£900m).
The Original problem with the submarine dates back to 2013, when it was came upon that it was once about 100 lots heavier than it needed to be.
That led to an issue for its buoyancy – so it might submerge, but might not come back up again.
A former Spanish reliable informed the Associated Press on the time that somebody had put a decimal element in the unsuitable position, and “nobody paid consideration to review the calculations”.
That mistake price a mentioned €14m while engineers and specialists found out that buoyancy could be advanced through lengthening the boat.
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The Original layout from state-owned defence company Navantia was once for a 71m, 2,TWO HUNDRED-ton displacement vessel.
Now, the S-EIGHTY Plus is an 81m, 3,000-ton boat.
As a consequence, the base at Cartagena may have to be dredged and reshaped to accommodate the now-floating longer vessel, the El País file said.
Spain’s Defence Minister Margarita Robles, talking on Spanish radio, admitted that “there were deficiencies within the project”.
She insisted that “they are already corrected and that the mission is actually potential”.
