Recent content by GR66

An interesting combo, but I bet they'd have a hell of a water polo team!

The standard K239 Chunmoo is significantly larger than HIMARS having dual launch pods and is not transportable by C-130 which I think is a significant negative for an expeditionary Army like ours...and for the Arctic/Coastal defence role in particular. However, according to Wikipedia they...

Their big profits are on the content portions of their portfolios....MLSE in particular for Rogers. The infrastructure/service delivery portions are not where they are making the money. You don't propose to eliminate 10,000 positions in your company (excluding...surprise, surprise...the...

More oil on the market means lower prices for everyone. "Drill, Baby, Drill" to maximize volume over price per barrel.

Well the obvious solution to the economies of scale problem of splitting the submarine order is to get 12 of each! ;)

While it would be nice if Airbus had an AEW aircraft (and an MPA) to give us commonality across our heavy fleets, we've got the MRTT's and we've got the P-8's. To me it would make sense to go with the E-7 for the AEW for commonality of supply chains with the P-8's for many of the base...

Curious to know what your thoughts are on this.

As with most issues there are two sides to the story. Bell and Rogers have been spending billions of dollars to replace their legacy copper infrastructure with fibre optics. The CRTC then makes them allow their smaller competitors to use that infrastructure to sell internet services directly...

What if Ontario Shipyards builds CDC's, Orca replacements and some USV's all of which will require replacement down the road. Maybe together with maintenance work on the CDC's it would be enough for them to have a continuous build program like the larger yards?

The key for any Bombardier-based platforms is integrating Air-to-Air refueling into their platforms

So, shipping liquid cargo and bulk cargo are a yes for Arctic shipping but not so much for container shipping. Remind me again what types of things we're thinking of shipping from /through the Arctic? Liquid and bulk cargo or containerized goods?

They are offering two sizes....too big and too small.

This is the very dark place where politics has been heading. The whole "stolen election" narrative and the ideas being pushed that the system itself is rigged against one side or the other could lead to a situation where a significant portion of the population doesn't believe their elected...

Well, if the US wants to "review its position on “imperial possessions,” including the U.K.’s possession of the Falklands near Argentina." then maybe they should ensure that Diego Garcia is given back to France as the original settlers of Mauritius and the Chagos Islands

I'm not sure I like the idea of these autonomous ships....I think we all know where it leads Joking aside, if we go with the KS III submarine we could have Hanwha co-locate one of these automated shipyards with our submarine maintenance facilities.