10 Jun
2004
10 Jun
'04
2:19 p.m.
According to today's BBC ( June 10, 2004 ), the new Type 45 "stealth" destroyers, which are to "provide the future backbone of the Royal Navy" are to be "controlled by state-of-the-art computers using a Windows NT operating system." BAE Systems is to have the first one launched in September 2007. A price of $ 3.6 billion is stated, but its not made clear if that's for all 26 of them, or just one. I suspect its for just one. Either way, it's good money pissed away. Windows NT ! These things will be a menace to everyone, including their own crews.