Saltwater environment attacks metal via a chemical, electrical and biological means. In fact the only reason that the large merchants ships can be economical is because of advances in modern paint technology.
Electrical problem at the dock ate 60lbs of zinc in 3 months and then started eating at the hull of a steel boat.
Well if your not driving the requirements, your probably following the taillights of someone who is.
May be seeing their tailights but they are hotboxing their car and thinking happy thoughts, but they probably have some senior navy folk there with them. I think the GoC figures the AOPs will replace the MCDVs, even if they are completely different roles and capabilities (and cost way more to operate).
Yep lots of discussions if AOPS can replace the KIN Class on OP REASSURANCE. I was expecting with the last defence update an announcement that some of the class would start to be paid off as there has been talk of that although ships are still be funded for refits with MCT going into a one year refit soon and KIN coming off dock very soon.
We won't storing ships in the Great Lakes, on land and ships won't be refitted and put away as they immediately start to deteriorate without regular maintenance. Its better for the ship to sail and that's what will happen with MCT. We currently have three ships on the WC tied up and PM going on but no crew although as I understand it that will end sooner than later. Ships are not APC's, not like them at all and they won't be sold to another nation.
And only 6 vs 12 - Canada - Doing less with less -
Companies an countries mothball ships, for years. If done correctly you can minimize the refit. We are just shit at storing stuff. There is very little on the Kingstons that would have to be stripped out for a sale. I can think of several navies that would be happy to have them.
There is actually an offer from a Pacific Rim country to buy them.
Yes I heard Vietnam.
I'm not saying it can't be done, what I'm saying it won't be done. When was the last time we sold ships to another country?
when was the last time we had a ship we weren't still using to sell?
Some of the old auxiliaries got sold off, but we're officially never going with a reef society again after having to take a few back and then disposing of them properly and also spend millions more on others to support artificial reefs.
Quite aware of that and that's a bit of a stretch comparing essentially a trawler and the USA to a foreign military in ASIA and the ships would have to get there. Of course if they want to put them on a heavy lift ship which is not cheap. Given that giving away ships to other entities such as Fraser, Cormorant has backfired on us normally has just caused us just to scrap them adhering to strick environmental protocols for disposal. Of course its entirely possible that the ships are eventually bound for the Vietnam navy although no decisions have been made officially on the disposition of the class and as mentioned before we currently have ships going into refit and the tied up WC ships are apparently being reactivated. As someone who has a fair amount of experience with the class and its condition while I trust us to maintain them and address significant issues that have only recently come to light, I would not push them on to other users just saying.
