The Falklands Factor
The Falklands Factor
The Battle that Changed the Shape of Ships
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- Genre: Technology & Engineering
- Sub-Genre: Environmental Science

The Falklands Factor
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The Battle that Changed the Shape of Ships
This is the almost incredible but well-documented story of the author’s 40-year-long hard-fought battle with naval authorities and government.
After the failure of Britain’s latest air-defence destroyers in the 1982 Falklands War, a public controversy began over an alternative: The S90 ‘Short Fat’ frigate designed and proposed by Peter Thornycroft and David Giles.
This is the almost incredible but well-documented story of the author’s 40-year-long hard-fought battle with naval authorities and governments on both sides of the Atlantic, to prove the virtues of his designs which they had rejected on the basis of theory rather than fact, and then eventually to win substantial
compensation after they covertly infringed his patents in two new classes of warship.
With a Foreword by the late Admiral Lord Hill-Norton, Former Chief of the Defence Staff; Technical Appendices; Glossary and Dramatis Personae.
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