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Interesting snippet from the Fall 2024 edition of the RCN's Maritime Engineering Journal - progress towards implementation of air capabilities: The completion of its first short work period on HMCS Max Bernays (AOPV-432) through May and into early June. AJISS, or the Arctic Offshore Patrol...

And the galley, hopefully!

Two years? The article states "Exactly 48 months after the first steel was cut, the ship successfully completed its maiden sea trials in December 2024." Further, the construction approach is very different from that specified by Canada - this hull was constructed and outfitted outside of the...

I just ma Well, Davie owns a Finnish shipyard (since 2023) that specializes in icebreakers. If it genuinely was vital to our nation's strategic interests to advance warship construction in the near term, we could at least consider a scenario where some of the icebreaker work is offshored to...

Plan, yes. Communicate to the masses, no.

Or pull a page from the Donald's playbook and make them an offer they can't refuse - change the limit or else. I'm sure there's a piece of legislation somewhere that allows for extreme measures in time of national emergencies. If we're unable to rationalize that today in the face of threatened...

You can't speak advanced concepts to an uneducated public through a dilutive media that dumbs down everything for the lowest common denominator and then still expect a valid message to be conveyed. You're whistling in the wind ...

It's apparently been some tough sledding, but I think Seaspan probably deserves more credit for constructing such an assortment of Coast Guard vessels compared to Irving's construction of 6+2 AOPS of relatively similar design.

Not unique to government bureaucracies. Many large organizations in industry believe leadership skills will mitigate lack of direct knowledge and experience in respect of the function being led.

It probably helped that procurement is part of the $38.6 billion plan to modernize NORAD announced in June 2022 ... maybe an easier sell in cabinet than fightie things (?)...

BC is a special case with respect to land acknowledgements because there are no treaties in place currently in the mainland, unlike Alberta and most of the rest of Canada.

Is most of Canada's coastline actually worth defending though? Well, there are 7 SLowpoke2 reactors operating in Canada right now (including one at RMC Canada) so its not impossible to imagine they could be accepted for military use. SLOWPOKE Nuclear Reactors in Canada

Interesting to read that the second JSS is under initial construction as well ... good to read. Thanks for sharing the article!