Friday, 13 January 2017

Publicity Department In Time Warp, Put Artisan 3D on 1930's US Battleship?

Every day when firing up the web browser at work to check my time recordings I am presented with the company bumf page. At present this includes a piece on the Artisan 3D radar, and in particular an infographic on it:

As you can see if you examine under powerful magnification in the centre it appears to show a ship equipped with Artisan. I will save you the trouble of zooming the image, here is a blow up of the ship:


A Type 23?, QE Carrier?, UK Assault ship of some kind? No, I'm not sure exactly what ship is depicted but it is clearly a US Battleship in the 1930's. As far as I can tell the tripod mast and clipper bow are not consistent with any particular ship. With a tower bridge I would have plumped for a New Mexico, with a non-clipper bow a Nevada or Pennsylvania. maybe someone can narrow the field down?

However excellent a radar Artisan is (and I believe so having worked with the project for a short while) the publicity department and their infographic make us look ridiculous rather than inspired as the company ID in the lower right tries to imply.


An alternative explanation is that there is a hidden subtext in the infographic - BAE have built a time machine and sent a number of Artisan 3D's back to 1941 and fitted them to US battleships in an attempt to reverse the result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour!

Another point of disinterest is the total lack of hits on this post, but if you are reading this that is no longer true. Of course it would still be of disinterest if you are me (or a bot)!?