The Spanish Navy's new submarines screw up

[twojaysalmeria]

I really find this hard to believe but...the new additions to the Armada were found to have a minor design fault, i.e. they could submerge but "possibly" would be unable to surface again. Apparently a decimal point was misplaced.

So they fixed the problem by extending the boats, doubling the cost to around a billion euros each.

However..(you knew there'd be a however, right?) ... the craft now don't fit into their docks at Cartagena, so THEY need to be enlarged, too, also at great expense.

There are a few other things that need to be sorted as well, of course.

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/18/inenglish/1531905099_853875.html

I've looked, but can't yet find who is to be blamed for this debacle. Honestly, you couldn't make it up.

J