Sentences with phrase «total blackout lining»

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Anyone who has worked in the defence engineering industry will know that financial risks start - out as innocuous looking technical risks on the Defence Contractor's premises, where selected ones are deliberately concealed by the Contractor during the design and development phase, then skilfully transferred to MoD Abbey Wood, Bristol where they morph into «show stopping» risks and come to the fore immediately after the main investment decision has been taken (as they have done so spectacularly on the Type 45 destroyers with total power blackouts), ultimately ending up as an additional cost burden on the Front Line Commands, who have recently been given responsibility for the defence equipment budget — resulting in sleepless nights for many other people too!