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Anyone else watching 'How to Build...' on BBC2 now? you should be as the football is about as interesting as watching England Vs England!
quite interesting
Seems like a rather obvious 1hr long publicity program for QinetiQ who for anyone who has ever dealt with them would know that they are biggest bunch of useless tossers going!
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Yea. I used to work in avionics and you do get a lot of wires!
I wonder when they will be able to deploy fibre optics to get rid off a lot of the copper.
They already do for some applications.
I think I was a little hasty with this thread as I suddenly lost interest in it when they kept cutting to the Qinetiq workers home lives - It actually did seem to be saying 'we're great, look at all our really clever workers and our fancy technology'. not good in the end tho it was exponentially better than watching the WC final!
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they also glossed over the massive amount of money made be a few key civil servants when the company was sold to the americans for half of **** all*
*may not actually be true, I think it is but i cant be bothered checking my fact as I want to go to bed!
I found it a bit like an overblown advert too, wasn't overly inspiring. I know people who work for them and can confirm that at least major parts of the engineering taskforce do unidentifiable boring chunks of work and never see the real items. A lucky few do though, and it must be a nice job.
I'd love to work on their "robots" - they're just radio controlled toys, they could do so much more but I'm fairly sure I'd never pass their psychometric testing 😀
didn't they also spend millions developing an inter solder comms system that used microwaves necessitating solders to stand up in the battlefield to get line of sight for the microwave link....
i work in the defence sector and it does seem to be a massively pointless but interesting way of simply keeping people employed. Everything seems to cost 10x what you'd think it should do, and all the technology is about 10 years behind what you'd get in the commercial world. Even the simplest project requires a huge number of people and managers to work on it.
Even the simplest project requires a huge number of people and managers to work on it.
Dunno about that, I know at least one person working in the defence sector working on something which is fresh out of academic research and as-yet unapplied anywhere else in teh world. I suppose it depends what bits you're involved with.
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I like the fact they were proud of their quick release technology on their 'robot' that allowed the arm to be changed in 'just 20 minutes'.
If someone shows them a bicycle wheel QR it might just make their brains explode in confusion 🙂
didn't they also spend millions developing an inter solder comms system that used microwaves necessitating solders to stand up in the battlefield to get line of sight for the microwave link....
I believe that embarrassment was back when they were called DERA and it was also chronicled in some TV documentary which was supposed to be good publicity but ended up making them look useless.
I did feel sorry for the guy who was developing the future infantry kit, though. I got the impression that it was really early on in its development and that it was putting the thing on TV that really killed the project. IIRC the microwave comms were never intended for the final kit, it was just stuck onto the prototype equipment until the actual comms unit was developed. The guy in charge certainly looked like he knew that the TV cameras were merrily flushing his career further down the toilet every time something went wrong.
I once saw someone fixing something on a high-tech fishing boat. There was a multi-core cable there that was basically the same as something you'd find on audio equippment but it was about a foot in diameter with hundreds of cores!
IIRC the microwave comms were never intended for the final kit, it was just stuck onto the prototype equipment until the actual comms unit was developed.
yes thought might be the case, but that programme was funny when the battle harden welsh squaddie was f'n and blindly slagging the system as you had the stand up.. all in an almost comedy accent + tash. 😉