The other key figure is that the entire submarine weighs 2,200 tons.
The sub was 3% too heavy and it will cost $14 million to fix, big woop, worse happens 1,000 times per day all around the world.
The sub was 3% too heavy and it will cost $14 million to fix, big woop, worse happens 1,000 times per day all around the world.
How much have we spent on F-35 research, trillions? And those things don't even work in space.
The sea is arguably more valuable than space in terms of military value, an underwater vehicle is practically invisible and can deliver massive amounts of firepower to any region in the world. Not to mention the secret mission capabilities of submarines such as tapping undersea fiber and special forces delivery.
the $14M is just for "an assessment of the problem with the S-80 submarine program and the scope of the work that would be required to correct it"
A military contractor going slightly over budget is not news worth, it's database or list worthy at best. Throw the data on wikipedia with the other million projects that had a hiccup or needed more funding, then be done with it.