Recent content by Colin Parkinson

Training for deckhands is limited. You have the bog standard courses every merchant sailor takes, which is about 3 weeks worth fire, marine emergency and bridge watchman. The west coast CCG tried running a week long training session and that worked for a few years and included all the required...

Sometimes you need to throw out ideas and see what sticks. I think that's what he is currently doing.

Prince Rupert has some frontage where the RCN could build a dock. However the land is only a couple of hundred metres wide, has a active rail line through it and is heavily contaminated. CN will be happy to sell/lease at heavy price no doubt. There was a ammunition resupply site at Port...

There will be a shit ton of work required to export oil from their terminal. Ships that were docking there, had to get their hulls cleaned due to the leaking oil.

Not to mention you need fuel storage, weapons storage and the abilty to get both to the site.

I did not realize that the Japanese islands extended that close to Taiwan, that certainly helps Taiwan and the allies resupply the island and become major problems for China.

and double the tonnage, making them basically Halifax frigates

Russia is not doing that well either and it's running out of AFV's as well.

At the rate the Ukrainians are learning, innovating and adapting, they will be able to hit most of the important parts of Russia within 1-2 years.

It's entirely possible that KSA would purchase Pakistani made tactical weapons and delivery systems, likley manned by Pakistani specialists and guarded by KSA loyalist troops. KSA could offer significant monies to Pakistan and prop up the government there in exchange. They could also provide...

Are we able to field 8 marine helicopters at one time?

They consider themselves a "Near arctic nation" :cool:

Plus the ones built for the Russians were ice strengthened, so a lot of that design work is already done.

I heard that as well, but that is a large step to take and long way off.

Likely not for ice breaking, but ice strengthened it should work.