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Marconi UK : we have stopped making SW transmitters and antennas, our reason
for being now ... shoddy naval software.

[Source: Article by Neil Mackay, Investigations Editor, *Sunday Herald*
(Scotland), 10 Oct 2004]

The Royal Navy's new, state-of-the-art destroyer has been fitted with combat
management software that can be hacked into, crashes easily and is
vulnerable to viruses, according to one of the system's designers who was
fired after raising his concerns.

... Windows For Warships....


I don't get it. What does lousy software for warships have to do with
Marconi's decision not to make any more SW transmitters?

It has to be said: this never would have happened in the days of
wooden ships and iron men.