FROM CRUISE LINERS TO CARRIERS
Thales will attempt to apply modular construction techniques pioneered in offshore oil platforms and cruise liners to the U.K.'s future aircraft carrier program. The company proposes to divide each vessel into five self-contained ``superblocks'' and to offer each for tender among competing shipyards...
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