The Collins class submarine story : steel, spies, and spin / Peter Yule and Derek Woolner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yule, Peter (Peter Lewis)

Contributor:

Woolner, Derek, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Submarines (Ships)--Australia--History.

Submarines (Ships).

History.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xx, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Part I. You Can't Build Submarines in Australia

'The one class of vessel that it is impossible to build in Australia': Australia's early submarines

Australia's Oberon class submarines

The submarine weapons update program and the origins of the new submarine project

The new submarine project

'We can't build submarines, go away': Eglo Engineering and the submarine project

The acts of the apostles

'But how will you judge them?': The tender evaluation process 1984-85

Spies, leaks and sackings: from tender evaluation to project definition study

The project definition studies, 1985-86

Debating the laws of physics: picking winners 1987

Part II. The Honeymoon Years 1987-92: 11. 'Keen as mustard to do a good job': setting to work 1987-89

Designing the Collins class

Building the Collins class

The automated integrated vision

Steel, sonars and tiles: early technological support for the submarines

'On time and on budget'

Part III. 'A Strange Sense of Unease' 1993-98

End of the honeymoon

The trials of Collins

'They were problems we didn't expect'

The role of Defence Science: noise and diesels

'A patch on this and chewing gum on that': the combat system 1993-97

Part IV. Resolution

'Hardly a day went by without the project getting a hammering in the press'

Bayoneting the wounded': the Mcintosh-Prescott report

'That villain Briggs' and the submarine 'get-well' program

Inside the American tent: the saga of the replacement combat system

'We'll do it and get rid of the buggers': Kockums, ASC and Electric Boat

'We would find that challenging': comparisons and retrospect.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521868945

0521868947

OCLC:

191258656

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