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If you could just quickly give the status of all ships.

TL;DRNo real status list is given; ships sit somewhere between not started and done, and with only about five vehicle teams working at once, some ships take a long time to appear.

John CreweVehicle Pipeline Director

Somewhere between not started and done.

Will WeissbaumLead Writer

I think a point here, and little notes from Jared, is just that we can't work on all the ships at once. I know there's a lot of ships that you put a big investment in, as a purchaser, a supporter of this one ship, and you can't wait for it to come out. And sometimes it can be a little frustrating waiting for it, but we are moving our way through the pipeline. We're seeing stuff come out.

John CreweVehicle Pipeline Director

Yeah, it is. Essentially, the vehicle team globally is about five individual teams. Those teams could be one person. They could be five people on a team. So at any one time, we can only really be working on five things. And given our quarterly release structure plus our Squadron requirements, sometimes you won't hear from us for a while. That's probably because we're doing something for Squadron or we're working on something that people don't know about. And if one team's working on Squadron, one team's working on a straight-to-flyable that isn't announced, that only leaves three people. And usually we're six to nine months, if not 12 months, ahead: the stuff we're working on now, you won't see released until the middle of next year. So there's only so much we can do at any one time, and things do change. It's a very fluid situation.

Paul JonesArt Director

But I think the upside is that we're solving a lot of problems, aren't we? So basically when the ships do come out, we'll be maintaining that quality bar that we're trying to hit.

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Published on this date.6 Dec 2019