Re: Ship copies was: Ship sales

I once heard of a Korean electronics firm that had purchased an
"automated
circuit board solding" machine.  It was a massive unit about 30-40 feet
long.
And right beside it was a perfect copy the plant's engineers had made of
the
orginal.

It seems to me that a ship is just somewhat bigger, and will take
somewhat
longer.  Anyone can hire the compitant engineers.

Donald Hosford

Karl Heinz Ranitzsch wrote:

> Jon wrote
> > >>1) One thing no one has manufactured: Manufacture of a design by
> license.
> > >
> > >I think that this definitely goes on. Not only that, but it allows
for
> some
> > >more iteresting variants.
> >
> > I'm sure it does, and not only under licence - there is probably a
good
> bit
> > of "buy one (or just nick the plans, much cheaper!), build lots of
> > near-copies" among the smaller powers.....
> >
> > Jon (GZG)
>
> I don't think it's that easy to steal a vessel and then
reverse-engineer it
> to build copies. There have been few instances, the most complex
example I
> can think of is the Soviet copy of the B29 Superfortress,
reverse-engineered
> from one that crashed in their territory.
>
> Stealing plans seems more likely.
>
> In both instances, the copycats usually think they know better and
will
> modify the design.
>
> By far the most common will be designs inspired by a successful type.
Of
> course, at first sight and in raw stats, these might be
undistinguishable
> from the original ;-)
>
> Greetings
> Karl Heinz